I've a script that connects to an IPAM tool via api, gets newly created vlans and then performs 'device q {vlan}' on a remote rancid server via paramiko. From this I get a dictionary of devices where the vlans are present.
Function for that is here
def check_rancid_for_vlan():
vlans = get_vlans()
client = paramiko.SSHClient()
client.set_missing_host_key_policy(paramiko.AutoAddPolicy())
client.connect(rancid_host, username=username, password=password)
results = {}
for i in vlans:
stdin, stdout, stderr = client.exec_command('cd /var/home/configs; device q Vlan{}'.format(i))
for line in stdout:
if "no" not in line:
device = line.split(":")[0]
if i in results:
results[device].append(i)
else:
results[device] = [i]
for key, val in results.iteritems():
for i in val:
print(key,i)
client.close()
This will output
(u'switch1', 1001)
(u'switch2', 1002)
(u'switch3', 1003)
(u'switch4', 1004)
I want to search each config for the vlan and print it. CiscoConfParse allows for searching an interface with
parse.find_objects_w_child(r"interface", vlan)
but is there any way to do this remotely over paramiko? Or a better solution potentially?
Solution was to copy the config directory from remote to local and perform parse there