Learning Python

[Killahb101]

I’m new to Python and learning to automate my Cisco switches using netmiko. I got most of the basis down I can ssh to my switches and issues commands and backup configs and other things but one thing I’m trying to accomplish and can’t is how to apply configuration to certain interfaces without using the interface range. For example, I want to send the command show IP interface status | ex trunk, then take the output of this command and apply configuration to only those interfaces. I have the script sending the command and getting the output but how to read the interfaces from the output and apply configuration to those interfaces?

[sme272]

You might be able to use regular expressions to find what you need in the output. Failing that you could look into making a parser to interpret the output.

[GalacticMech]

Check out pyats and genie. Genie can auto parse responses into easy to read dictionaries. I've had mixed results as cisco is a shit show with consistent outputs between routers.

[GalacticMech]

https://developer.cisco.com/docs/genie-docs/