Recently I found a Cisco blog explaining how you can automate the creation of labs using AI, MCP, and Cisco CML. Though the blog post links to the components used to make it happen, it does not offer a “getting started guide” to make it work. In this post I will show you what I did in my environment to get it working.

Claude Desktop

Claude Desktop is an app you run on your computer. It allows you to use Claude AI assistant which gives you access to the underlaying LLM hosted in the cloud.