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Using netmiko to edit public IOS XR Always-On Sandbox router?

yoshi--power — Mon, 25 May 2020 14:09:28 GMT

Hello everyone,

I'm following different labs about network automation.

I went through the NETCONF/YAML lab with the Always-On Sandbox router, worked like a charm.
I also used netmiko to do basic operations like get running config and it worked well.

However, I can't seem to edit configuration with send_config_set on this router.
Code example :

from netmiko import Netmiko
from getpass import getpass

net_connect = Netmiko(
    "sbx-iosxr-mgmt.cisco.com",
    username="admin",
    port="8181",
    password=getpass(),
    device_type="cisco_ios",
)

print(net_connect.find_prompt())
commands = ["logging history size 500"]
net_connect.send_config_set(commands)
net_connect.disconnect()

But I get a socket timeout exception. Is this router configured to block these kind of calls?

Am I doing something wrong?

Thankfully

Re: Using netmiko to edit public IOS XR Always-On Sandbox router?

omz — Mon, 25 May 2020 15:10:53 GMT

device_type="cisco_xr"
commands = ["logging history size 500", 'commit']

and it should work

Re: Using netmiko to edit public IOS XR Always-On Sandbox router?

yoshi--power — Mon, 25 May 2020 15:46:06 GMT

Simple as that, maybe I should've read the documentation more. Thanks!

On a sub-question is this Sandbox router virtualized or is it the same for anyone?
Say for instance 100 users access it at the same time and create the same Loopback interfaces, will it create conflicts?

Re: Using netmiko to edit public IOS XR Always-On Sandbox router?

omz — Mon, 25 May 2020 16:14:58 GMT

Pretty sure its virtualised .. everyone accesses the same box.

More than one user configuring at the same time ..

Re: Using netmiko to edit public IOS XR Always-On Sandbox router?

bigevilbeard — Mon, 25 May 2020 17:10:00 GMT

Correct, it's an XRv9000.