Interacting with devices running Cisco IOS XR

Cisco IOS XR (http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/ios-nx-os-software/ios-xr-software/index.html) is a distributed network operating system for service providers. It supports many devices to provide a cloud scale networking. It is known as a self-healing distributed networking operating system.

PyIOSXR (https://github.com/fooelisa/pyiosxr) is a Python library used to manage the devices that are running IOS XR. In this recipe, we will install pyIOSXR, mock a network, and coordinate it with a Python program based on pyIOSXR.

Getting ready

First install pyIOSXR:

$ sudo pip install pyIOSXR

How to do it...

Now you may connect to your device using Python as shown by the following code segment:

from pyIOSXR import IOSXR 
device = IOSXR(hostname='lab001', username='ejasinska', password='passwd',
 port=22, timeout=120) 
device.open() 

You may test pyIOSXR without an IOS XR device using the mock scripts provided by the project.

Checkout the source code from the...