The following is a ready to go netlike template , you just need to choose your way of authentication and the device type , you can find the supported devices on both the documentation and the Git for the Netmiko library :
Netmiko Source Code : Netmiko Github
API reference (must check for more functionality) : Netmiko Doc
# netmiko_starter.py
from netmiko import ConnectHandler
device_dictionary = {
'device_type': 'DEVICE_TYPE',
'host': 'DEVICE_IP_ADDRESS',
'username': 'USERNAME',
'password' : 'PASSWORD',
# 'verbose': False ,
# 'session_log': 'log.txt',
# 'global_delay_factor': 2,
}
net_connect = ConnectHandler(**device_dictionary)
output = net_connect.send_command("show version")
net_connect.disconnect()
Comments on the code :
- uncomment verbose if you want to disable Netmiko's Logs .
- uncomment session_log to debug the connection failures .
- uncomment _ global_delay_factor_ to add delay when waiting for commands output , very useful if the devices are slow , note that this is not in seconds but in multiple , so "2" mean multiply the default delay by 2 and so on
For more functionality , like the types of devices supported , please check the API docs .
Also check the textfsm templates part of the guide , this helps a lot with parsing the output instead of using the normal Regex way , it supports a lot of well known devices outputs .
good luck
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