Parse Cisco IOS to JSON with Python and Netmiko

[@Nightmaremaker85]

3 years... i´m so late in this world... thank you man.

[@vzylexy1506]

This video is an absolute gold mine, thank you so much!

[@SnortDefence]

Nice vlog @knox.. look forward to see more example of custom perser to read some of cisco IOS tech-support logs

[@alinbandiu]

JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU !!! I managed to get the output in json format ! Now it's much more easy to get this output into my flask web api and show there just the relevant output ! thank you x999999

[@DataKnox]

Rock on! Check out my video on PyATS, too! Another easy way to accomplish this

[@kenmurphy4259]

Great Video Knox, well explained!

[@DataKnox]

Thanks!

[@fungolattaa7858]

its really great thanks knox

[@paulheavens1170]

Great video! Thank you for explaining all the little bits.

[@Paracomerteabesos]

Great video! Saludos desde Argentina

[@BlindPigBluesBand]

What a great video!!!!!! Thank you! I loved how you unpacked the dictionary. I did not know that one. Great energy delivering content. So cool

[@brandonknight6521]

Great video, thank you!!

[@sauvus]

Always love the T-shirts!

[@leonmflai]

Great video. Great sharing

[@muhammadyasser4551]

This I a great work honestly and a great timing as well,I have just received a task to use Netmiko with JSON output ,but

[@muhammadyasser4551]

when I use pipeline and other commands like uptime = connection.send_command("show version | in uptime", use_textfsm=True) the output is JSON but with many keys and value which I don't want type in the pipeline typically [ { "running_image": "", "reload_reason": "", "hostname": "admin", "uptime": "24 minutes", "config_register": "", "hardware": [], "mac": [], "version": "", "serial": [], "rommon": "" } ]

[@muhammadyasser4551]

I hope to find the answer,,,Thank you

[@DataKnox]

Just omit the pipe and parse out the response as a Python dict. For instance, the uptime item above try: c = ConnectHandler(**switch) c.enable() versions = c.send_command('show version', use_textfsm=True) uptime = versions[0]['uptime'] print(uptime) c.disconnect() except Exception as e: print(e)

[@muhammadyasser4551]

@@DataKnox In somehow it worked ... thank you so much keep it up , Hope to see more videos soon

[@Ogunmos]

Jeez. This is awesome!

[@DataKnox]

I wish someone had told me about it sooner! Haha

[@anouartouil3645]

great video, i am doing exactly the same thing as you but with Netgear Switch , am i getting false json output because there is no template for netgear ?

[@paulheavens1170]

Do we still have to install ntc-templates separately? It seems to be included with Netmiko now?

[@muhammad.rafi2012]

thats awesome Knox, I was wondering can this also be accomplished via Genie ?

[@DataKnox]

Here you go! kzbin.info/www/bejne/sJvdon17mqqLbJI

[@themarksman1]

I wanted to parse "sh hsrp ipv4 brief" output in IOS-XR to JSon. No luck so far. I guess I will have to work on the plain text using splitlines() & regex

[@kenmurphy4259]

Great video Knox, love this stuff, more please! I think Netmiko uses c.disconnect() instead of c.close()

[@DataKnox]

It sure does use disconnect() ! Good catch!

[@paullukacs9321]

Data, fantastic explanation and examples. Could you post the format of your env.py file?

[@DataKnox]

There is a .env file (dot env) .. It reads similar to this username='ssh user' password='ssh pw' secret='enable secret' NET_TEXTFSM='/home/knox/Documents/CodeSamples/Python/Networking/IOS/ntc-templates/templates'

[@andreslopez180]

Hey Knox awesome video. One small request dough. I will really appreciated if you can make a video explaining how use Netmiko and paramiko, how to install it on a windows environment and integrated with VS. I have been really struggling to get it to work. Thanks sir.

[@DataKnox]

Hey Bryan! I cover Netmiko in our ENAUTO course, albeit briefly. I’m hoping to do some dedicated Netmiko (plus PyATS) content later! Thanks!

[@ahrisho]

Ha. Awesome shirt.

[@chiyupao5497]

love from china

[@DataKnox]

🙏❤️

[@techevangelist8373]

Subscribed👍

[@DataKnox]

Thank you, friend! Let me know what you’d like to see next!

[@techevangelist8373]

@@DataKnox i have started learning python recently..feel like some of fundamentals are ok now like lists, dictionary tuples conditional statements...now i am looking for a code that will track the switchport from its ip address..i found one in git and i just copy pasted and try to run it but it threw tracebacks..lol..looks like some basics i am missing here..github.com/routetehpacketz/cisco-ip-trace. Can you explain how to make this work or atleast start doing some videos on similar codes...like automating some real life repetitive tasks.......by the way, all you CBTians are awesome guys...full of energy...👍👍👍thanks for finding some time to reply my message...

[@DataKnox]

tech evangelist I haven’t seen this but I will check it out!

[@techevangelist8373]

@@DataKnox great thank you...keep doing what you are doing today...👍

[@nancyestanislao2059]

Is It posible using this with iosxr? 😳

[@KacperMurat]

yes, you need to use 'cisco_xr' instead of 'cisco_ios' in 'device_type' :)

[@emmanueloluwayemisi]

Nice tutorial pls how can i hide my password

[@chrisrogers1092]

You're totally wrong about ssh on that device. It most definitely supports ssh.