topic Re: Using Netconf NCCLIENT to automate multiple devices at once in Network Devices

Using Netconf NCCLIENT to automate multiple devices at once

nwekechampion — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 05:26:20 GMT

Hi guys,

Does anyone know of a script to use or can help out with a link that simply shows how to loop through multiple devices to program them using ncclient?

Regards

Champ

Re: Using Netconf NCCLIENT to automate multiple devices at once

Marcel Zehnder — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 06:08:44 GMT

As a basic example you can simply loop over a list of devices:

from ncclient import manager devices = [ "1.1.1.1", "1.1.1.2", "hostname.xyz", "1.1.1.3" ] username = "admin" password = "secret" cfg = """ <config> <native xmlns="http://cisco.com/ns/yang/Cisco-IOS-XE-native"> <banner> <motd> <banner>Welcome to this device. Have a nice day!</banner> </motd> </banner> </native> </config> """ for dev in devices: with manager.connect( host=dev, port=830, username=username, password=password, hostkey_verify=False, ) as m: res = m.edit_config(target="running", config=cfg) if res.ok: print(f"successfully configured {dev}")

HTH
Marcel

Re: Using Netconf NCCLIENT to automate multiple devices at once

nwekechampion — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 08:04:28 GMT

Thanks Marcel,

That worked.

I might use functions to group routers for similar config and see how far I go.

Thanks