list/fetch all the existing interfaces name/id per device from CDB

[mohamels]

Hi , 

i'm trying to list all the existing interfaces per device from CDB using Python API to be used further to get more info per interface .

i got the interfaces without interfaces ID as shown below  !  what should i add as a variable to list the interfaces name/id ?

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                Gig_Ints = device.config.ios__interface.GigabitEthernet

                vlan_Ints = device.config.ios__interface.Vlan

                print(Gig_Ints)

                print(vlan_Ints)

---output ---

GigabitEthernet
Vlan

i tried to follow the configuration path like [name] or [ios_name] but it doesn't work.

Thanks

[yfherzog]

As you noticed, trying to print a list, just returns the list name.

You can either iterate the list or use python list comprehension to get a list of interface types.

Something like the code below should work (I didn't test this one below):

if_types = ['GigabitEthernet', 'Vlan']

for if_type in if_types:
  ifs = [x.name for x in list(device.config.ios__interface[if_type])]
  print(if_type)
  print(ifs)

[Jason Belk · Accepted solution]

If you are looking for some examples on working with interfaces, I have some here:

https://github.com/NSO-developer/nso-5-day-training/blob/master/nso_python_api_examples.py#L224

Here is an example printing an inteface name, the name is a Python attribute of the object, so need to do "interface.name" to get the key. 

def print_interfaces(device_name, interface_type):
    """
    Prints each interface number on the device of the given type
    """
    with ncs.maapi.single_write_trans('admin', 'python', groups=['ncsadmin']) as t:
        root = ncs.maagic.get_root(t)
        device = root.devices.device[device_name]
        for interface in device.interface[interface_type]:
            print (interface.name)

[mohamels]

Thank you so much  yfherzog and Jason Belk  for your support