I’ve played with NetMiko in the past, but never really documented anything I’ve done. It’s a cool tool, so I’ve set Remmina to scrape the SSH session and I’m planning to upload a few posts covering what I use it for.
This post today is just setting up Netmiko and validating function. Short and sweet.
First of all, you have to install NetMiko. I did this on Ubuntu with python3, so that meant dragging down python3-netmiko, python3-paramiko, and python3-scp. I used Synaptic Package Manage, but you can use apt-get or the package manager of your choice. Once you have NetMiko and it’s dependencies installed, pop terminal and open the python3 shell. My input is bold and notes are italicized below.
steve@ubuntu:~$ python3
Python 3.6.5 (default, Apr 1 2018, 05:46:30)
[GCC 7.3.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from netmiko import ConnectHandler
>>> cisco_test = {
... 'device_type': 'cisco_ios',
... 'ip': '192.168.0.1',
... 'username': 'cisco',
... 'password': 'password',
... }
>>> net_connect = ConnectHandler(**cisco_test)
>>> net_connect.find_prompt()
'TestSW01#' confirms the connection to the switch
>>> output = net_connect.send_command("show ip int br") attempt to send a command
>>> print output
File "<stdin>", line 1
print output
^
SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'. Did you mean print(output)? Oops, forgot this is py3.
>>> print(output)
Interface IP-Address OK? Method Status Protocol
Vlan1 unassigned YES NVRAM administratively down down
FastEthernet0/1 unassigned YES unset administratively down down
FastEthernet0/2 unassigned YES unset administratively down down
...omitted for brevity...
GigabitEthernet0/3 unassigned YES unset administratively down down
GigabitEthernet0/4 unassigned YES unset administratively down down
>>>
Cool. It’s working! Now I’m going to jump in Atom and write some scripts for the next NetMiko post.
steve[init] 