Hi Guys, I just started learning Python a couple of days ago and to put some of what I learnt into practice. As such I thought I might try and write a simple program (based on examples I had seen) that would allow me to log into a Cisco router, enter configuration mode, change an interface description and also grab a snapshot of the running configuration.
So far I've managed to be able to log in and change the interface configuration. The tn.read_until() function seems to work pretty much as I expected however for the life of me I cannot get the running configuration to display with any of the read functions. Suggestion please........my code thus far follows: import getpass import sys import telnetlib #This can actually log in and change an interface description on a router HOST = "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" #user = raw_input("Enter your remote account: ") #password = getpass.getpass() password = "tacis345int" tn = telnetlib.Telnet(HOST) #tn.interact() tn.read_until("Password:") tn.write(password + "\n") #if password: # tn.read_until("Password: ") # tn.write(password + "\n") tn.read_until("port>") #tn.write("show version\n") #tn.write("\n\n") #tn.read_until("port>") tn.write("enable\n") tn.read_until("assword: ") tn.write("tacis345int\n") tn.read_until("port#") tn.write("conf t\n") tn.read_until("config)#") tn.write("int ethernet0\n") tn.read_until("config") tn.write("desc This was written by my script\n") tn.write("show run\n") print tn.read_very_lazy() tn.write("exit\n") tn.read_until("#") tn.write("quit\n") tn.close() print tn.read_all() The only output I get from this is: -if)# show I have tried the other read options but nothing seems to work for me. I'm obviously missing something, so if anyone could shed some light that would be great. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list