Hands-On Enterprise Automation with Python

Device auto detect

Netmiko provides a mechanism that can guess the device type and detect it. It uses a combination of SNMP discovery OIDS and executes several show commands on the remote console to detect the router operating system and type, based on the output string. Then netmiko will load the appropriate driver into the ConnectHandler() class:

#!/usr/local/bin/python__author__ = "Bassim Aly"__EMAIL__ = "[e-mail]"from netmiko import SSHDetect, Netmikodevice = {    'device_type': 'autodetect',    'host': '10.10.88.110',    'username': 'admin',    'password': "access123",}detect_device = SSHDetect(**device)device_type = detect_device.autodetect()print(device_type)                   print(detect_device.potential_matches)device['device_type'] = device_type ...