Introduction to Python Network Automation: The First Journey

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B. ChoiIntroduction to Python Network Automationhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6806-3_14

14. Python Network Automation Labs: SSH paramiko and netmiko

Brendan Choi¹  

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Sydney, NSW, Australia

 

In this chapter, you will use Python’s SSH libraries, paramiko and netmiko, to control your networking devices. paramiko is what Ansible relies on for SSH connection management to network devices, and netmiko is an engineer-friendly version of paramiko as netmiko also relies on paramiko. By studying how these network modules work, you can learn the inner workings of other applications relying on these network modules. In the first half of this chapter, you will learn to replace basic network engineer manual tasks using Python scripts ...