Help using pyATS with Catalyst SDWAN

[andy.dickinson]

Hello,

I'm looking into the possibility of using pyATS to automate testing when upgrades to a Catalyst SD-WAN overlay are performed.

To do this I'll need to use the vManage as a proxy jumphost to connect to all the edge devices. I tried setting this up, but I can't work out how to pass the command needed to access the cedges, e.g;

request execute vpn 0 ssh -l admin -p 830  2.1.1.1

Is this possible, or do I need to use pyATS to connect to the devices directly?

Thanks,

Andy

[bigevilbeard]

@andy.dickinson not sure if that is possible, two options - you can directly go to the devices as i saw in a 21.x version of pyATS support was added for pyATS Clean support for IOSXE/SDWAN cEdge devices and pyATS Clean support for SD-WAN Controllers (vManage/vBond/vSmart), iosxe/sdwan (cedge device). Or look at SATRE SDK too.

Hope this helps.