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Parsing Unstructured CLI Response Data Using TextFSM in Itential

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00:00 Introduction & Overview of Demo
01:14 Finding the Correct Template
02:43 Using the Template Builder
03:06 Understanding the Template Output
04:24 Using a Template in an Automation Workflow
05:22 Running the Automation & Checking Output

TextFSM is an open source tool that allows you to take unstructured data from any source and parse it to output more structured, machine-readable data. By using the Template Builder in the Itential Automation Platform, network teams can quickly build TextFSM templates to parse unstructured CLI output and return formatted data that can be used within an automation workflow.

In this ItentiaLearn demo, see step-by-step how to:

Build a TextFSM template for any command on any network device.
Incorporate templates into automation workflows.

About This Demo

This ItentiaLearn demo walks step-by-step through using TextFSM in the Itential Template Builder to parse unstructured CLI output from any network device into structured, machine-readable data, then incorporate those templates into automation workflows.

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