Installation and Usage

NETWORK DEVICE AUTOMATION

A python wrapper for netmiko which allows you to push commands to network infrastructure devices. It can then dump the output to a file for later analysis.

New: Support for Sentry PDU's (Sentry Switched CDU).

Implements netmiko's SCP file transfer for Cisco devices. Use -f to transfer files to the device (specifies flash: directory only. This is a netmiko limitation). Remember, Cisco's scp server implementation relies on authentication AND authorization.

DEVICE SUPPORT

What to append at the end of each IP address
- ,cisco_ios
- ,hp_procurve
- ,sentry_pdu
- ,juniper_junos
- ,paloalto_panos

FUTURE DEVELOPMENT

Implementing the capability to directly pass the device type to netmiko. This will provide the ability to use any netmiko device type without explicit support from this wrapper.
Allowing to specify which section of config in the cli.config file gets pushed out to certain IP ranges. Then you can list all the config for various devices (e.g. multi-vendor devices).
Implement multi-threading to push out commands/files concurrently.

SETUP

pip3 install git+https://github.com/ctomkow/swITch.git
Create the following files

ip.list (1^st - n^th line: IP address, device type)

172.30.30.30,hp_procurve
172.30.30.31,cisco_ios
...

cli.cmd (1^st - n^th line: cli command)
```
show interfaces
...
```
cli.set (1^st - n^th line: cli command)
```
ip name-server 1.1.1.1
...
```
auth.txt (1^st line: username, 2^nd line: password, 3^rd line: enable password)
```
joe
password
enableME
```

(note: port description below is currently legacy that doesn't use the newer send_config_set netmiko method. It still works on Cisco devices as-is, however.)

port.desc (1^st line: config t, 2^nd - n^th line: interface, port description)

config t
interface gi0/1,description Port C001 : 1-52
interface gi0/2,description Port C002 : 1-53
.
.
.
interface gi0/48,description Port C048 : 1-87

RUN

A common command sequence.

$ swITch -eva auth.txt -i ip.list -c 'show runn'

Other examples.

$ swITch -h

$ swITch -i '192.168.0.4,cisco_ios' -c 'show vlan' -a auth.txt

$ swITch -e -i 172.30.30.30 -f c3560-ios-image.bin -a auth.txt

$ swITch -e -i ip.list -c cli.cmd -a auth.txt

$ swITch -e -i ip.list -s 'ip name-server 1.1.1.1' -a auth.txt

$ swITch -e -i ip.list -p port.desc -a auth.txt

$ swITch -i '10.0.0.10,sentry_pdu' -c 'LIST PORTS' -a auth.txt

Notes

You can comment out lines in (port desc, ip list, cli conf)input files with a '#'.

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