Rationale: With the ever$-$increasing prevalence of DevOps and containerisation technologies within application development, a particular focus has been placed on adopting these automation and orchestration principles within the networking domain. Traditionally, networks and their associated devices have been manually configured on a per$-$device basis through CLI; however, this approach does not provide the flexibility or agility required for today$$s fast$-$paced and dynamic production environments. The advent of network programmability and orchestration aim to resolve these shortcomings, propelling networking into the automation age. Description: $1.$ Establishing Connections Produce a script or series of scripts to demonstrate both secure $($SSH$)$ and insecure $($telnet$)$ remote connections to a network device within your topology. This script should provide the following capability: $$ Establish an insecure remote connection to a remote router or switch device within your chosen topology and modify the device hostname. $$ Establish a secure remote connection to a remote router or switch device within your chosen topology and modify the device hostname. $$ Send a command to the remote device to output the running configuration and save this to a file locally. Delivery $1$: Create a script or series of scripts to achieve the above and submit to Moodle. $(10\%)$ due $18/10/2024.$