Python is widely used to perform multiple tasks. One of the tasks that widely uses Python is network automation. With its wide set of libraries (such as Netmiko and Paramiko), there are endless possibilities for network device interactions for different vendors. Owing to the support of Python, the list of supported devices continues to expand with the developer community, adding support for additional vendors as they are introduced to market.
Before we proceed to interact with devices, let us understand one of the most widely used libraries for network interactions. We will be using Netmiko to perform our network interactions.
Netmiko (https://github.com/ktbyers/netmiko) is a library/module in Python that is used extensively to interact with network devices. This is a multi-vendor library with support for Cisco IOS, NX-OS, firewalls, and many other...