My journey with Network & Cloud Automation
TextFsm is available as a plugin to various device interaction libraries like Netmiko but what if we need to use TEXTFSM as a standalone python package, it is also available. Conditions where you don’t have access to the devices but have outputs from the device in a text file. We have already seen how to…
We have already seen how to work with and manipulate CSV files with python for network automation. This post is going to talk about ways you can manipulate excel for network automation using python. Please read How to read write Excel with python for Network Automation Part 1 From one of the previous posts, we…
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….
In this post we will parse the output of show version to fetch most common details required from it. We will try to learn step by step how to capture information like version, hostname, hardware model, uptime etc. You can use the concept to fetch any other detail you would like from any other command…
Assume you want to extract below details from the output of “show version” from multiple devices at once. This post is going to talk about how to parse data using python Using this method you can extract anything you want from any other output too. For instance, you can extract all BGP neighbour info from…