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    This lab exercise teaches how to use the Netmiko Python module to configure and collect information from a Cisco router. The topology includes a router with IP 192.168.149.100 that can be accessed via SSH. The objective is to use Netmiko to send commands to the router to display interfaces and configure a loopback interface. Netmiko's ConnectHandler function is used to establish an SSH connection and the send_command and send_config_set functions allow executing show commands and pushing a list of configuration commands respectively.

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    This lab exercise teaches how to use the Netmiko Python module to configure and collect information from a Cisco router. The topology includes a router with IP 192.168.149.100 that can be accessed via SSH. The objective is to use Netmiko to send commands to the router to display interfaces and configure a loopback interface. Netmiko's ConnectHandler function is used to establish an SSH connection and the send_command and send_config_set functions allow executing show commands and pushing a list of configuration commands respectively.

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    This lab exercise teaches how to use the Netmiko Python module to configure and collect information from a Cisco router. The topology includes a router with IP 192.168.149.100 that can be accessed via SSH. The objective is to use Netmiko to send commands to the router to display interfaces and configure a loopback interface. Netmiko's ConnectHandler function is used to establish an SSH connection and the send_command and send_config_set functions allow executing show commands and pushing a list of configuration commands respectively.

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    2 - User Netmiko Python To Configure A Router

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    This lab exercise teaches how to use the Netmiko Python module to configure and collect information from a Cisco router. The topology includes a router with IP 192.168.149.100 that can be accessed via SSH. The objective is to use Netmiko to send commands to the router to display interfaces and configure a loopback interface. Netmiko's ConnectHandler function is used to establish an SSH connection and the send_command and send_config_set functions allow executing show commands and pushing a list of configuration commands respectively.

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    The key takeaways are learning how to use the Netmiko Python module to connect to and manage a Cisco IOS router via SSH. Netmiko allows sending commands and configurations to the router programmatically.

    The purpose of this lab is to learn and understand how to use the Netmiko Python module. Specifically, how to collect information and configure a router through SSH using Netmiko.

    To establish an SSH connection using Netmiko, you need to import the ConnectHandler function and pass in parameters like device_type, IP address, username, and password to create a connection object. This object can then be used to send commands to the router.

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    Use Netmiko Python to configure a router


    Lab Topology:
    The lab network topology is illustrated below:

    https://user.pnetlab.com/store/labs/detail?id=16043760603977
    Lab Objective:
    The objective of this lab exercise is for you to learn and understand Netmiko Python.
    Task:
    We have a router that had ssh configuration. And we will use Netmiko Python to collect some
    information and configure this router.

    Solution

    Basic Configuration:

    Router R1
    Configuration hostname R1
    !
    ip domain name example.netacad.com
    crypto key generate rsa modulus 2048
    !
    username cisco privilege 15 password 0 cisco123!
    !
    interface Ethernet0/0
    no shutdown
    ip address 192.168.149.100 255.255.255.0
    !

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    line vty 0 4
    exec-timeout 0 0
    logging synchronous
    login local
    transport input ssh

    You can see that 192.168.149.0/24 is my VMW IP. So you can change it.

    My router have ip that is 192.168.149.100/24. Our ssh account: cisco/ cisco123!

    First, you need to download netmiko module. You can follow this link:

    https://pypi.org/project/netmiko/

    Next, I am using Sublimetext Software for Python. You can download from this link:

    https://www.sublimetext.com/3

    After you have done, let’s start:

    Step1: Import Netmiko’s ConnectHandler() Function.

    from netmiko import ConnectHandler


    Step2: The netmiko module includes the ConnectHandler() function. This function requires the
    following parameters for establishing an SSH connection with the IOS device:

    • device_type - identifies the remote device type

    • host - the address (host or IP) of the remote device

    • username - remote ssh username

    • password - remote ssh password

    a={
    'device_type':'cisco_ios',
    'ip':'192.168.149.100',
    'username':'cisco',
    'password':'cisco123!',

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    }
    sshCli=ConnectHandler(**a)
    Step3: Use Netmiko to collect some information

    We will try to collect information from command “ show ip int br”

    output = sshCli.send_command("sh ip int br")


    print(output)
    Press Crtl + B in order to run the program, Here is our result:

    Set a variable to hold the output of the show command you are sending. Use the send_command
    function of the sshCli object, which is the SSH session previously established, to send the desired
    command. In this case, we are sending sh ip int br.

    After sent the command, we would print the result like above.

    Step4: Use Netmiko configure a router

    Now, we are configuring the Loopback 1 interface on R1:

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    config_commands = [
    'int loopback 1',
    'ip add 1.1.1.1 255.255.255.255']
    sentConfig = sshCli.send_config_set(config_commands)
    print('\n',sentConfig)
    And this is the result:

    Config_commands is a list command that we want to configure into R1. We use send_config_set
    function to enter the configure terminal mode and push all our list command into the router. Let’s
    go into R1 check interfac.

    R1#show ip int br
    Interface IP-Address OK? Method Status Protocol
    Ethernet0/0 192.168.149.100 YES manual up up
    Ethernet0/1 unassigned YES unset administratively down down
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    Ethernet0/2 unassigned YES unset administratively down down


    Ethernet0/3 unassigned YES unset administratively down down
    Loopback1 1.1.1.1 YES manual up up
    It is working! Nice!

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