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 […]
Scrapli and Flask – Part 7: Multicast Dashboard Read More »
I have used Jinja in all of my projects that use Flask. It’s a simple way to get Python syntax into a HTML page.Details about the project and full documentation can be found here. I will show how I have used Jinja in my Multicast Daskboard, part of my Scrapli and Flask Project. I have
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When I was creating the page in my Scrapli and Flask Project for Multicast details. I had a requirement to split a string on multiple delimiters. As always Stack Overflow came to aid me. The “show ip mroute” plain text output from the Nexus switch uses multiple delimiters for new lines, three specifically: “\n, \n\n,
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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
Scrapli and Flask – Part 5: Additional Device Details Read More »
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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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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