Python code using Parallel-SSH library to connect to F5 BigIP

This seems like a question JRahm may be able to answer!

For anyone else trying to get this to work on Mac...first:

1. brew install cmake
2. (In a venv) pip install ssh2-python
3. (In a venv) pip install parallel-ssh

Will post back on details if I can get it talking to BIG-IP. Just took a minute to get through the pip errors for this module.

UPDATE: Got it working. Works with password or key file if you copied your ssh keys to BIG-IP.

from pssh.clients import ParallelSSHClient

hosts = ['ltm1.test.local', 'ltm2.test.local']
#client = ParallelSSHClient(hosts, user='root', password='default')
client = ParallelSSHClient(hosts, user='root', pkey='/Users/justme/.ssh/id_rsa')
cmd = 'tmsh list ltm pool'

output = client.run_command(cmd)
for host_out in output:
    for line in host_out.stdout:
        print(line)

### One output for brevity ###
/Users/justme/PycharmProjects/playground/venv/bin/python /Users/justme/PycharmProjects/playground/sshtest.py 
ltm pool nginx-pool {
    members {
        172.16.102.5:http {
            address 172.16.102.5
            session monitor-enabled
            state up
        }
    }
    monitor http
}

Process finished with exit code 0

Hello,

I've tried mimicking the code shared here, but it returns a similar error 

pssh.exceptions.AuthenticationError: ('Authentication error while connecting to %s:%s - %s - retries %s/%s', '<IP_address>', 22, AuthenticationError(), 3, 3

A difference I noticed is that my user, when connected through SSH, gets placed in TMSH instead of BASH.

I've tried 

from pssh.clients import ParallelSSHClient

hosts = ['<IP_address1>', '<IP_address2>']
client = ParallelSSHClient(hosts, user='<MyUser>',password='<MyPassword>')
cmd = 'show sys clock'

output = client.run_command(cmd)
for host_out in output:
    for line in host_out.stdout:
        print(line)

  and 

from pssh.clients import SSHClient

host = '<IP_address>'
s = SSHClient(host, user='<MyUser>', password='<MyPassword>')
cmd='show system clock'

res = s.run_command(cmd)

print(res)
for line in res.stdout:
    print(line) 

Thanks in advance. All help will be appreciated.

My versions

• WSL, Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS
• Python          3.10.12
• parallel-ssh   2.12.0
• ssh-python    1.0.0
• ssh2-python  1.0.0
• BIG-IP          15.1.10.3