Today we're releasing one of AI Advisor's first Write features: a feature that allows it to create objects in your Kentik Portal configuration.

When AI Advisor launched, its initial scope was to help network operators understand and gain insights on their network data faster, whether during a routine investigation or planning exercise or troubleshooting a critical network outage. It was intentionally limited in scope to reading network data, with no ability to make changes. Today marks the first release of a new family of AI Advisor capabilities to help you configure Kentik itself and accelerate onboarding.

Let's take a look at it!

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How does it work ?

Let's just ask AI Advisor, shall we?

So all we have to do is prompt AI Advisor to create a site by submitting its main attributes – to double-check which attributes we can set at creation time, let's just ask it again.

Starting with a simple example, note how it will always ask for permission to create, edit, or delete any object in Kentik Portal via a Human in the Loop (HITL) prompt.

Once created, we can update it, since AI Advisor has the info in its recent context. In this example, let's add a "User Access Network" IP Range to that site by asking it to edit the one we just created.

What about batch creating sites?

While creating Sites with AI Advisor  in Kentik Portal is neat, what we really want it to do is speed up onboarding (i.e. to create multiple sites in one go).

Good news: AI Advisor can do that!

All we have to do is submit the content of a CSV file that has a row for each site. Here's an example with three sites and a header row that names the fields:

"site name","address_street","address_zipcode","address_country_2_letter","address_region","site_type","site_market","peeringdb_fac"

"[test] CDG Telehouse 2","137 boulevard Voltaire","75011","FR","Île de France","Connectivity","test_site_market","53"

"[test] CDG Equinix PA3","114 rue Ambroise Croizat","93200","FR","Île de France","Connectivity","test_site_market","717"

"[test] LYS Free Pro Lyon Rock","60 Avenue Rockfeller","69008","FR","Rhone Alpes","Connectivity","test_site_market","6976"

This results in the successful creation of three sites, with a single HITL confirmation prompt to confirm.

Taking site creation to the next level: Combining AI Advisor tools

Let's imagine we have all our sites registered in PeeringDB as Facilities. The good news is that AI Advisor can access a tool (to be announced in a separate article) with access to the entire up-to-date PeeringDB data.

So we can ask questions such as:

...and follow up with a request to create them in Kentik.

And voila!