Hands-On Enterprise Automation with Python

Using netmiko for SSH

Now it's time to utilize netmiko and see its power for SSHing to network devices and executing commands. By default, netmiko handles many operations in the background during session establishment, such as adding unknown SSH key hosts, setting the terminal type, width, and height, and accessing enable mode when required, then disabling paging by running a vendor-specific command. You will need to define the devices first in dictionary format and provide five mandatory keys:

R1 = {    'device_type': 'cisco_ios',    'ip': '10.10.88.110',    'username': 'admin',    'password': 'access123',    'secret': 'access123',}

The first parameter is device_type, and it is used to define the platform vendor in order to execute the correct commands. ...