May 2026
Intermediate to advanced
418 pages
9h 29m
English
book
Hands-On Cisco Automation with Python: Streamline Network Tasks Using Netmiko, NAPALM, and Nornir for Beginners
by Rick Graziani, Adrian Iliesiu
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Chapter 11
Using Nornir with NAPALM
In Chapter 10, “Using Nornir with Netmiko,” you learned about using Nornir with Netmiko to automate multiple devices at once. You saw how to use Netmiko to handle the SSH connection to each device (router) and Nornir to scale those connections across the entire inventory. With this combination, a simple Python program can execute commands or push configuration to many devices at the same time. This chapter takes the next natural step and looks at using Nornir with NAPALM.
A Quick Review
Before we begin discussing how Nornir can enhance the automation abilities of NAPALM, let’s have a quick review of both NAPALM and Nornir.
A Quick Review of NAPALM
Earlier in the book, you saw that NAPALM (Network Automation ...
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