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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

Accessing module source code

You can access the source code of any module that you use in two ways. First, go to the module page at github.com and view all the files, releases, commits, and issues in one place, as in the following screenshot. I have read access to all shared code via the netmiko module maintainer and can see a full list of commits and file contents:

The second method is to install the package itself in the Python site-package directory using pip or PyCharm GUI. What pip actually does is it goes to GitHub and downloads the module content and runs setup.py to install and register the module. You can see the module files, but this time you have full read/write access on all files and you can change the original code. For example, the following code leverages the netmiko library to connect to a Cisco device and execute the show arp command on it:

from netmiko import...
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