Next, as we want to target multiple devices, we store the configuration into a dictionary specifying the IP, username, password and port. As we created this seperate connection package, we need to import that into our code using from connection import get_connection. With that out of the way, we can continue. connect( hostname = host, username = username, password = password, port = port, look_for_keys = False, allow_agent = False) Import paramiko def get_connection( host, username, password, port): The examples in the post are merely conceptual and for informational purposes. One should never store the username and password in the clear, not in the source code itself. Our SSH client will now send this command to the IOS XE device which will execute theĭisclaimer: this is not production-grade code obviously. Next, we will execute the specified command using the ssh.exec_command command. We will first create the ssh client and then make a connection (via the connect method) to our Cisco IOS XE device. The main part of this script is the instantiation of the ssh client object. Then we specify the required parameters to login to our device (this is all documented in the above ‘sandbox’ link).

We start obviously with importing the Paramiko library.

Successfully installed bcrypt-3.1.7 cffi-1.14.0 cryptography-2.8 paramiko-2.7.1 pycparser-2.20 pynacl-1.3.0 six-1.14.0 Script 1: single command - single deviceīelow script will execute the show ip interface brief against a Cisco IOS XE device. Installing collected packages: pycparser, cffi, six, bcrypt, cryptography, pynacl, paramiko (venv ) WAUTERW-M-65P7:Paramiko_Introduction wauterw$ pip3 install paramiko WAUTERW-M-65P7:Paramiko_Introduction wauterw$ source venv/bin/activate WAUTERW-M-65P7:Paramiko_Introduction wauterw$ python3 -m venv venv

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