Chapter 2: Connecting to Network Devices via SSH Using Paramiko
When administrating IT devices from a remote location, be it network equipment or servers, SSH has become the standard. With its secure transport and various authentication methods, it's a safe choice that is widely used to this day to administer and configure servers or network devices. It is thus only natural when getting started with programmability and network automation, to find a way of issuing SSH commands not by hand but from a script. With this, you can take a sequence of commands you used to type into the device by hand and execute them programmatically on one or more devices. The last part is crucial. With a script that executes commands for you, you can easily apply ...
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