Hi Chris, Thanks for the advice! I'm aware of this module, the problem is that this is quite a low level module and I would have quite a lot to re-invent specific to telneting to a cisco router. Thanks!
> Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 14:27:55 +1100 > Subject: Re: seeking a framework to automate router configurations > From: ros...@gmail.com > CC: python-list@python.org > > On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 1:40 PM, Frank Cui <y...@outlook.com> wrote: > > "Asynchronously reset a large number of cisco routers back to their original > > configurations and push prepared initial configurations to them" > > From the sound of your partial solutions, this is done over a TCP/IP > socket? I don't know how you'd go about authenticating yourself with > the router (unless the factory reset is done some other way, and the > telnet part is just to push the config, in which case you'd be using > the default credentials), but presumably you've worked that part out > already. > > Python has a socket module which is probably what you want here. You > can connect on any port, read what comes back, and send whatever you > need. If the job's simple enough, you might even be able to just > connect, send a fixed blob of text, and then listen for errors in the > response... or even not, and just let the user try it afterwards. > > http://docs.python.org/3/library/socket.html > > Does that look like what you need? > > ChrisA > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
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