Over my years as a network engineer there has always been some element of scripting required. Whether it was formally required by a project, a particular situation or whether it was because i was sick of doing the same thing over and over again and wanted to make my life easier.

As part of my new role at VMware, I get to play with NSX for vSphere or NSX-v, and one thing that becomes apparent, is that if you don’t learn how to use the REST API, there will be certain situations where you will not be able to achieve your desired outcome. The NSX REST API, can be used to configure items which are not exposed in the UI, or you can use your favourite scripting language and script repetitive tasks.

In my case, I have decided to learn Python. I am not a programmer, and never will be, but I will be hosting my scripts on GitHub (link) for everyone to download, and if you want to improve one, fork it, modify it and create a pull request and we can go form there.

Happy Scripting!