Building a Production-Grade Cisco ISE Deployment in One Sitting — With AI as My Pair

Mon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve configured Cisco ISE more times than I’d like to admit. Network Device Groups, AD joins, policy sets, authorization profiles, TACACS+ device admin, MAB for IoT — every deployment hits the same rhythm: a week of clicking through admin screens, a sprint of “wait, why isn’t this matching?”, and a final lap of building runbooks nobody will read.

Last week I sat down with Claude and a Cisco dCloud sandbox to try something different: build the whole thing as code, end-to-end, in one evening. AD-integrated wireless 802.1X. TACACS+ admin login. MAB for IoT endpoints. VLAN + dACL push. Config snapshots. Smoke tests.

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Building a Production-Grade Cisco ISE Deployment in One Sitting — With AI as My Pair