Last updated: March 16^th, 2022

Netmiko & Requests Examples for Cisco DevNet

• In netmiko folder, you will find 18 Python examples, device_list.csv file, config-sample-ex8.txt file, a requirements.txt file, and an explanation of each example.

• In requests folder, you will find seven Python examples, a requirements.txt file, and an explanation of each example.

How to use?

1. Clone this repo or Download ZIP by clicking on up above. (Alternativley, you can click on Releases on the right hand side and download the latest release)

2. Once downloaded, extract the ZIP file and cd into netmiko folder or requests folder.

3. Open netmiko or requests folder in VSCode.

4. Open requirements.txt file and if any of the libraries is not installed on your PC, run the following command in the PowerShell terminal:

path_to\folder> cd netmiko
netmiko> pip install -r requirements.txt --user ↵

path_to\folder> cd requests
requests> pip install -r requirements.txt --user ↵

If the libraries already installed but not the same version as in requirements.txt, then add --upgrade flag to the pip install command:

path_to\folder> pip install -r requirements.txt --user --upgrade ↵

5. Explore each example*.py file. (where * is the number of the example)

6. Run any Python example by typing the following command in PowerShell terminal (Either integrated terminal in VSCode or standablone Windows PowerShell/CMD):

path_to\folder> python example*.py ↵

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Libraries Documentation Links

Examples in netmiko and requests folder uses some Python libraries. These libraries are:

1. Netmiko v3.4.0 (Multi-vendor library to simplify Paramiko SSH connections to network devices) Documentation Link
2. NTC Templates v3.0.0 (TextFSM templates for parsing show commands of network devices) Documentation Link
3. XlsxWriter v3.0.3 (XlsxWriter is a Python module for creating Excel XLSX files) Documentation Link
4. Pandas v1.4.1 (Data Analysis Library) Documentation Link.
5. Openpyxl v3.0.9 (A Python library to read/write Excel 2010 xlsx/xlsm files) Documentation Link
6. Requests v2.27.1 (HTTP Requests) Documentation Link