Device management using the NETCONF protocol as specified in RFC4741 and RFC6241.
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Extensible protocol transport framework for SSH and non-SSH
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SSH transport using Net::SSH
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Telnet transport using Net::Telnet (Ruby Library)
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Serial transport using Ruby/SerialPort
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NETCONF Standard RPCs
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get-config, edit-config
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lock, unlock
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validate, discard-changes
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Flexible RPC mechanism
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Netconf::RPC::Builder to metaprogram RPCs
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Vendor extension framework for custom RPCs
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XML processing using Nokogiri
This software is not officially supported by Juniper Networks, but by a team dedicated to helping customers, partners, and the development community. To report bug-fixes, issues, susggestions, please contact Jeremy Schulman.
require 'net/netconf' # create the options hash for the new NETCONF session. If you are # using ssh-agent, then omit the :password login = { :target => 'vsrx', :username => "jeremy", :password => "jeremy1" } # provide a block and the session will open, execute, and close Netconf::SSH.new( login ){ |dev| # perform the RPC command: # <rpc> # <get-chassis-inventory/> # </rpc> inv = dev.rpc.get_chassis_inventory # The response is in Nokogiri XML format for easy processing ... puts "Chassis: " + inv.xpath('chassis/description').text puts "Chassis Serial-Number: " + inv.xpath('chassis/serial-number').text }
Alternative explicity open, execute RPCs, and close
require 'net/netconf' dev = Netconf::SSH.new( login ) dev.open inv = dev.rpc.get_chassis_inventory puts "Chassis: " + inv.xpath('chassis/description').text puts "Chassis Serial-Number: " + inv.xpath('chassis/serial-number').text dev.close
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Ruby 1.8.7 or 1.9.3
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Nokogiri >= 1.5.5
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Net::SSH >= 2.5.2
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SerialPort >= 1.0.4 (optional)
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gem install netconf
Each Netconf session provides a readable instance variable - rpc. This is used to execute Remote Procedure Calls (RPCs). The @rpc will include the NETCONF standard RPCs, any vendor specific extension, as well as the ability to metaprogram new onces via method_missing.
Here are some examples to illustrate the metaprogamming:
Without any parameters, the RPC is created by swapping underscores (_) to hyphens (-):
require 'net/netconf' dev.rpc.get_chassis_inventory # <rpc> # <get-chassis-inventory/> # </rpc>
You can optionally provide RPC parameters as a hash:
dev.rpc.get_interface_information( :interface_name => 'ge-0/0/0', :terse => true ) # <rpc> # <get-interface-information> # <interface-name>ge-0/0/0</interface-name> # <terse/> # </get-interface-information> # </rpc>
You can additionally supply attributes that get assigned to the toplevel element. In this case You must enclose the parameters hash to disambiquate it from the attributes hash, or declare a variable for the parameters hash.
dev.rpc.get_interface_information({ :interface_name => 'ge-0/0/0', :terse => true }, { :format => 'text'} ) # <rpc> # <get-interface-information format='text'> # <interface-name>ge-0/0/0</interface-name> # <terse/> # </get-interface-information> # </rpc>
If you want to provide attributes, but no parameters, then:
dev.rpc.get_chassis_inventory( nil, :format => 'text' ) # <rpc> # <get-chassis-inventory format='text'/> # </rpc>
To retrieve configuration from a device, use the get-config RPC. Here is an example, but you can find others in the examples directory:
require 'net/netconf' login = { :target => 'vsrx', :username => "jeremy", :password => "jeremy1" } puts "Connecting to device: #{login[:target]}" Netconf::SSH.new( login ){ |dev| puts "Connected." # ---------------------------------------------------------------------- # retrieve the full config. Default source is 'running' # Alternatively you can pass the source name as a string parameter # to #get_config puts "Retrieving full config, please wait ... " cfgall = dev.rpc.get_config puts "Showing 'system' hierarchy ..." puts cfgall.xpath('configuration/system') # JUNOS toplevel config element is <configuration> # ---------------------------------------------------------------------- # specifying a filter as a block to get_config cfgsvc1 = dev.rpc.get_config{ |x| x.configuration { x.system { x.services }} } puts "Retrieved services as BLOCK:" cfgsvc1.xpath('//services/*').each{|s| puts s.name } # ---------------------------------------------------------------------- # specifying a filter as a parameter to get_config filter = Nokogiri::XML::Builder.new{ |x| x.configuration { x.system { x.services }} } cfgsvc2 = dev.rpc.get_config( filter ) puts "Retrieved services as PARAM:" cfgsvc2.xpath('//services/*').each{|s| puts s.name } cfgsvc3 = dev.rpc.get_config( filter ) puts "Retrieved services as PARAM, re-used filter" cfgsvc3.xpath('//services/*').each{|s| puts s.name } }
NOTE: There is a JUNOS RPC, get-configuration, that provides Juniper specific extensions as well.
To retrieve configuration from a device, use the edit-config RPC. Here is an example, but you can find others in the examples directory:
require 'net/netconf' login = { :target => 'vsrx', :username => "jeremy", :password => "jeremy1" } new_host_name = "vsrx-abc" puts "Connecting to device: #{login[:target]}" Netconf::SSH.new( login ){ |dev| puts "Connected!" target = 'candidate' # JUNOS toplevel element is 'configuration' location = Nokogiri::XML::Builder.new{ |x| x.configuration { x.system { x.location { x.building "Main Campus, A" x.floor 5 x.rack 27 } } }} begin rsp = dev.rpc.lock target # -------------------------------------------------------------------- # configuration as BLOCK rsp = dev.rpc.edit_config{ |x| x.configuration { x.system { x.send(:'host-name', new_host_name ) } }} # -------------------------------------------------------------------- # configuration as PARAM rsp = dev.rpc.edit_config( location ) rsp = dev.rpc.validate target rpc = dev.rpc.commit rpc = dev.rpc.unlock target rescue Netconf::LockError => e puts "Lock error" rescue Netconf::EditError => e puts "Edit error" rescue Netconf::ValidateError => e puts "Validate error" rescue Netconf::CommitError => e puts "Commit error" rescue Netconf::RpcError => e puts "General RPC error" else puts "Configuration Committed." end }
NOTE: There is a JUNOS RPC, load-configuration, that provides Juniper specific extensions as well.
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Jeremy Schulman, Juniper Networks
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Ankit Jain, Juniper Networks