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Network automation using various python modules in Python3
https://github.com/twr14152/Network-Automation-Scripts_Python3

eapi multiprocessing napalm netconf netmiko nxapi python python3 restconf telnetlib

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# Network-Automation-Scripts using Python3

# Libraries: Pyeapi, Netmiko, Napalm, Telnetlib, Restconf, Nxapi, Nornir, Netconf

This repository holds various automation scripts I've written over the years. 

My goal has been to use this as a repository for knowledge retention as well knowledge sharing.

I plan to continue to grow this respository as long as I'm still doing stuff in the network automation space.



This has been a iterative learning process for me and I will be archiving or deleting scripts that no longer have value.



### DNAC

- Grabbing data out of DNAC

    - get_device_dnac.py

    - get_client_health_info.py



### Meraki

- Using requests to GET data from the meraki dashboard api (Orgs and Networks)

- Using requests POST to create a network through the meraki dashboard api

- Using requests PUT to update a SSID on a wireless device through the meraki dashboard api 



### Network Controller

- Playing around with Packet Tracer and testing out its network controller

- Grab network device info - network_controller/get_device_info.py

- Grab more generic info from network devices - network_controller/get_all_devices_info.py

- Update network devices (site wide) - network_controller/update_device_config.py



### Nornir - TestDrive 

- Cisco IOS - GNS3 lab - nornir/using_netmiko_plugin

- Arista Ceos lab - nornir/using_napalm_plugin 

- Testing newer version of Nornir, not backwards compatible with version 1.x



### Netconf

- Getting used to xmlns is a challenge and can be frustrating. Took me a while to find the proper xmlns to config a loopback

- Wrote a script to find out where that xmlns is in the server capabilities dump

    - netconf_svr_capability.py

    - netconf_svr_capability_ouput.txt

- Documentation around netconf is not intuitive from my point of view

- This will be a trial and error process. 

- Script to config loopback interface

    - netconf_config_device.py - configured a loopback on devnet router

    - netconf_config_device_output.text - results

- Script to do config backups. 

    - netconf_iosxe_cfg_bkup.py - rewrite of netconf_config_bkup.py

    - netconf_config_bkup.py - goes out pulls running config and places it in config_bkup/ directory

    - netconf_config_output.txt - the results of the script

- First time using netconf

  - netconf_ex1.py

  - netconf_get_conf.py



### Nxapi 

- Minor update to the  to make output from commands more readable 

  - added : print(json.dumps(response, indent=2, sort_keys=True))

  - added nxapi_script02.py and nxapi_script02_output.txt for comparison to original script

- Found this api documentation to be lacking

- Script examples I found were rigid and not very flexible

- Created a script to allow user to enter any commands (config/show) w/o having to rewrite the script.

  - nxapi_script_ex1.py



### Restconf 

- Created two scripts one to create an interface and the other to delete it

    - create_intf.py

    - delete_intf.py

    - script_output.txt

    

### Pyeapi - Python client for Arista eAPI 

 - Created some scripts for use with ceoslab

 - pyeapi_w_out_conf.py - using pyeapi without config file

 - Cleaning up directory archived some scripts and created interactive script folder

 - Posted configs and validation scripts for ceos demo

 - Posted configs and validation from demo

 - hidden host config file, needs to be located in ~/.eapi.conf

 - created two sample scripts



### Netmiko testing

- Got a request today to help someone write a script. Created folder and will keep the scripts in there. 

    - script_requests/req_config_script_07292020.py 

- Haven't messed around with Netmiko in quite a while decided to play around and try and update an old script to have both (show/conf) functionality.

- It's painfully slow as I haven't added any features such as MP to it to speed it up, but it was working with the devnet CSRs.

- Basically the script will ask the user if this is going to be a configuration or show commands script. Depending on the answer the script will do one or the other.  

  - test_stuff/interactive_script.py 

  - test_stuff/interactive_script_output.txt

- NetworkDiscovery/host_file_and_script/ has the most pragmatic scripts for doing network discovery (ie..scripts that run show commands and captures the results and saves them to files)

- Netmiko scripts for running show commands can be found in the NetworkDiscovery folder 

  - show_commands.py - easiest for every day troubleshooting and operations and lab work

- Python3.7 works with the scripts as written. Python3.8 is not yet ready. 

- Reorganized some config scripts into config_scripts folder

  - Scripts are self explanatory

- Created a script to go out and automatically determine the device_type for a host_list or seedfile.

  - NetworkDiscovery/host_file_and_script/auto_detect_script.py

- sample script to connect to juniper device

  - juniper_script1.py

  - juniper_conf_from_file.py

- scp 

  - file transfers to veos devices hosted using vagrant

  - file transfers to multiple devices using containerized eos or ceos 

- Network-Automation-Scripts_Python3/netmiko/NetworkDiscovery/host_file_and_script/

  - ios_discovery_enable_mode.py - if enable pw is required

  - ios_discovery_script.py - if username/password priv level 15

  - host_file.txt

- Added 3 examples of how to use jinja templates with netmiko

 - conf_bgp_r4_r5_using_class_obj. - uses class object to populate template

 - conf_bgp_r4_r5_using_dict.py - uses dictionaries to populate template

 - conf_bgp_yaml_jinja2.py - uses yaml files to populate a jinja2 template

- Created new script that provide you a sandbox to say how many devices, what devices, and what to configure on each

    - ssh_sandbox.py

- Created a very basic ssh script useful for discovery + updated with error handling

- Created script that can handle multiple device with multiple unique configuration files

- Added multiprocessing to speed up

    - netmiko_multi_dev_cfg.py

- Added multiprocessing Pools to scripts to speed them up

    - netmiko_script5.py

    - netmiko_show_cmds.py

    - netmiko speed comparison between serial and multi-processing pools

- netmiko_script#.py

- capture output of scripts



### Napalm for eos

- /config_scripts/conf_merge 

- /config_scripts

- Tested with ipython(python3.6) - EOS_lab_Napalm_test_results

- napalm_eos_script1.py



### Napalm for cisco ios

- napalm discovery script and post script

    - discovery_ios_svc_now.py

    - post_svc_now_rest_api.py

- created a config_scripts directory added new script

    - script_config_ios.py

- added new get_facts and get config script to directory

- Testing with python3 napalm_base and napalm_ios

- In my gns3 environment I'm using the following code

    - C7200-ADVENTERPRISEK9-M, Version 15.2(4)S7

    - IOS provides access to a subset of napalms features

    - EOS has been a more feature rich testbed with napalm



### Telnetlib module

- Added script that works with devices that require enable password

- Use python3 telnetlib module

- capture output of scripts



### Misc stuff

- script to find duplicate ips

  - findingDupIPs.py

- simple way to iterate through cli commands when running a script

  - loop_thru_cli_cmds.py

  - loop_thru_cli_cmds_output.txt