I have added a multicast page to the web app that demonstrates the ability to pull in details for multicast. I originally planned to use this with the Nexus multicast lab, however as TextFSM or Genie do not support the parsing of the command “show ip mroute”. Side note Genie does support the command “show […]
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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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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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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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Now that Scrapli is able to talk to the Cisco devices and then add that data into the database to be displayed in Flask, I have improved on the web app to allow for; Mass adding of devices by IP address Error checking each IP address and notifying the user Code for the this current
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This is where we start to integrate Scrapli with Flask. Here I have created a very quick website that is mostly reused from my F5 Dashboard project. This is a very simple web app with the single purpose of adding data to a database and then displaying that to a user. How it Works The
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A very quick demo of how Scrapli can connect to a device run “show version”. The output can be printed in the plain text format from the switch itself or from a parsed version in the form of a Python dictionary Notes Need to install Scrapli and Genie Genie will come with a lot of
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