Mastering Python Networking

eAPI examples

We can then write a simple program called eapi_1.py to look at the response text:

      #!/usr/bin/python2      from __future__ import print_function      from jsonrpclib import Server      import ssl      ssl._create_default_https_context = ssl._create_unverified_context      switch = Server("https://admin:arista@192.168.199.158/command-api")      response = switch.runCmds( 1, [ "show version" ] )      print('Serial Number: ' + response[0]['serialNumber'])

Note since this is Python 2, in the script I used the from __future__ import print_function to make future migration easier. The ssl related lines are for Python version > 2.7.9, for more information please see https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0476/.

This is the response I received from the previous runCms() ...