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AI Agents & MCP Servers for Network Engineers: RAG & Chroma MCP Deep Dive

Mon, 20 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction
RAG (Database for AI)
Conclusion
References

Introduction

I have reached the conclusion to write this article after 7 months of continous studying , tweaking and testing many AI workflows in order to optimize my daily work,

As a primarily network engineer, my field’s vendors still are resisting the pivoting to AI in Infra, as unlike software engineering, which does not mind move fast and break things, in Infrastructure, the vendors can be much more cautous,

PyATS MCP, How a Network Engineer start with AI

Wed, 15 Oct 2025 01:11:49 +0300

Overview
- Starting with result
- Introduction
What are MCP servers?
What is PyATS ?
What is Gemini CLI ?
Dive in
References

Overview

Starting with result

Starting with the final result, here I am asking Gemini to get me the software version of one of my switches :

$ gemini -m gemini-2.5-flash 

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╭─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ > get me the software verstion of clab-fullmesh-lab-n9kv1 and put it in cli table │
╰─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

 
 1 +-------------------------+-----------------+
 2 | Device | Software Version|
 3 +-------------------------+-----------------+
 4 | clab-fullmesh-lab-n9kv1 | 10.4(6) |
 5 +-------------------------+-----------------+

Introduction

AI usage is no longer only for copy & paste to chatgpt to get info about an error, or to search how to do something, no longer is just a Google search replacement,

Automating DrawIO network topology using Python

Tue, 06 Sep 2022 11:26:44 +0200

Intro

In this blog , we are going to show how to use the draw_network_plot python library to generate a DrawIO Network topology easily instead of manually drawing them yourself . DrawIO is widely used as a free alternative to Microsoft’s Visio to draw network topologies. I will be using Netmiko and CDP to acquire the data needed for the plot for the devices themselves , but this part won’t be the focus of the article . Focus of the article is how to use the “drawio_network_plot” library" to generate the DrawIO file .

Managing Huawei Cloud_Engine switches using Ansible

Thu, 25 Aug 2022 12:19:49 +0200

Introduction

I have been working with the Huawei Cloud Engine series of switches for the Data Center, and one of the great things I was introduced to is the efficient usage of Ansible+Netconf to configure Legacy network devices instead of the trial and error handling way of Python+SSH , which you had to anticipate the delay of the SSH session and to handle a console output using Regex which while very customizable , when it comes to production environments , your supervisors would much prefer a tried and tested technology backed up by the vendor itself .

Python's Netmiko starter template

Sun, 17 Jul 2022 12:36:51 +0200

The following is a ready to go netlike template , you just need to choose your way of authentication and the device type , you can find the supported devices on both the documentation and the Git for the Netmiko library :

Netmiko Source Code : Netmiko Github API reference (must check for more functionality) : Netmiko Doc

# netmiko_starter.py 
from netmiko import ConnectHandler

device_dictionary = {
 'device_type': 'DEVICE_TYPE', 
 'host': 'DEVICE_IP_ADDRESS',
 'username': 'USERNAME',
 'password' : 'PASSWORD',
 # 'verbose': False ,
 # 'session_log': 'log.txt', 
 # 'global_delay_factor': 2, 
 }
net_connect = ConnectHandler(**device_dictionary)
output = net_connect.send_command("show version")
net_connect.disconnect()

Comments on the code :

uncomment verbose if you want to disable Netmiko’s Logs .
uncomment session_log to debug the connection failures .
uncomment _ global_delay_factor_ to add delay when waiting for commands output , very useful if the devices are slow , note that this is not in seconds but in multiple , so “2” mean multiply the default delay by 2 and so on

For more functionality , like the types of devices supported , please check the API docs .

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AI Agents & MCP Servers for Network Engineers: RAG & Chroma MCP Deep Dive

Table of Contents

Introduction

PyATS MCP, How a Network Engineer start with AI

Table of Contents

Overview

Starting with result

Introduction

Automating DrawIO network topology using Python

Table Of Contents

Intro

Managing Huawei Cloud_Engine switches using Ansible

Table Of Contents

Introduction

Python's Netmiko starter template

Table Of Contents

Comments on the code :