My journey with Network & Cloud Automation
This post is going to talk about the ways you could use to access the end devices through the jump server or a proxy server. I am going to use Netmiko which is my all-time favorite tool whenever I need to programmatically interact with network devices. Let’s see how we can leverage Netmiko SSH proxy…
Up until now, we have been establishing connections to devices sequentially, i.e If you have 10 devices from which you want to pull show version data, the script will connect to device1, extract show version, goto device2, extra show version, connect to the device and extract show version and so on until all devices are…
In Part 1 of this series, we saw how to establish a connection with network devices using python netmiko and fetch command outputs. In this post, we will see how to enter into enable mode and also configure cisco devices using python netmiko programmatically. If you are new to netmiko, please read Part1 here For…
In the previous post, we have seen how to leverage the TEXTFSM parser with netmiko. In this post, we will see how to install and parse data with Netmiko Genie plugin into a formatted data structure that we can easily export to a datasheet. List of available GENIE PARSERS. Step1:- Install pyats and netmiko You…
The foremost is to be setup TextFSM correctly for Netmiko to work. The official site (Netmiko & NTC )explains a method that didn’t really work for me. I have tried to set up TextFSM using pip install ntc_templates and also using git clone but none of them particularly worked for me out of the box….