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Hands-On Enterprise Automation with Python

You're reading from   Hands-On Enterprise Automation with Python Automate common administrative and security tasks with Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788998512
Length 398 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Setting Up Our Python Environment 2. Common Libraries Used in Automation FREE CHAPTER 3. Setting Up the Network Lab Environment 4. Using Python to Manage Network Devices 5. Extracting Useful Data from Network Devices 6. Configuration Generator with Python and Jinja2 7. Parallel Execution of Python Script 8. Preparing a Lab Environment 9. Using the Subprocess Module 10. Running System Administration Tasks with Fabric 11. Generating System Reports and System Monitoring 12. Interacting with the Database 13. Ansible for System Administration 14. Creating and Managing VMware Virtual Machines 15. Interacting with the OpenStack API 16. Automating AWS with Boto3 17. Using the Scapy Framework 18. Building a Network Scanner Using Python 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using Python to Manage Network Devices

Now we have a fair knowledge about how to use and install Python in different operating systems and also how to build the network topology using the EVE-NG. In this chapter, we will discover how to leverage many network automation libraries, used today to automate various network tasks. Python can interact with network devices on many layers.

First, it can handle low-level layers with socket programming and socket modules, which serve as low-level networking interfaces between operating systems that run Python and the network device. Also, Python modules provide higher-level interaction through telnet, SSH, and API. In this chapter, we will dive deep into how to use Python to establish remote connections and execute commands on remote devices using telnet and SSH modules.

The following topics will be covered:

  • Using Python to telnet to devices...
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