I have used parsing in other projects. I used Genie and TextFSM to parse Cisco output in order to get specific details.TextFSM in ProjectGenie in ProjectHere I want to take a closer look at creating a TextFSM template. As I could not easily find a TextFSM template for the Nexus command “show ip mroute” I […]
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I have added the ability to create a base device template for Cisco IOS, Nexus and IOS-XE.The idea of this is to create a quick way to get a basic configuration to SSH on to the device. For switches, the options for configuration can become quite complex as you can have either a VLAN or
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I wanted to show what can be done with RPA inside of Python. I have written a small script that takes in a list of domains and checks them against SSL Labs.Code can be found in my GitHub There is an API for this website, but I wanted to use RPA to show it off.
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I have used RPA mouse and keyboard automation to open up sublime, enter text and then edit that text. Full reference for what the commands do can be found on the repo for RPA. All my RPA scripts can be found in my Github The process of the script is;1. Click start, find Sublime text
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I have used RPA web automation to get the days exchange rates for five currencies. This is a quick example of what is possible. A lot more can be done with this and it’s so simple to use. All my RPA scripts can be found in my Github The process of the script is;1. Open
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RPA is a way of automating processes that do not have the use of an API. RPA can be used to automate repetitive tasks on; websites or desktop applications. I thought this would be a good way of adding IP addresses to my Scrapli & Flask Project without using an API (as I haven’t added
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In version2, I have made several changes to continue with this project Added device details page for each device Refresh database button for upto date device details Refresh button for each device Notification if the last refresh of device data is greater than 200 seconds Also added is a device base template cofig generator. More
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I needed to pass a list of error IP addresses from one Flask view to another. Flask views are just two different functions, they define the pages on the website. The error IP list was created when on page devices/info and they are to be displayed on page devices/inventory as errors. Method 1 This first
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Although this is similar to the previous post of Scrapli Async and Multi threading. The difference is here is that it is a working example of what will be used in the Scrapli & Flask Project. In the code below I will be using Scrapli to connect to 8 of my devices in the GNS3
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Scrapli can use Asyncio instead of multi processing or multi threading. Briefly Asyncio is the ability of the script to continue running while waiting for some input/output. The reason you would prefer this over muti threading or processing is becasue Asyncio uses a single thread only reducing any resource issues. Async is not parrallelism like
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