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dvalve_376192
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Nov 05, 2018

python show running-config

I am trying to get a Python script to output the running config of my F5, to show everything from authentication to pools to ntp settings. With TMSH/SSH it's so easy doing 'show running-config' and t...
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  • Malware_Mike_37's avatar
    Malware_Mike_37
    Nov 21, 2018

    I was able to get the running config to show with Python, please see the code below:

     

    from f5.bigip import ManagementRoot
mgmt = ManagementRoot("your_f5_ip", 'username', 'password')
x = mgmt.tm.util.bash.exec_cmd('run', utilCmdArgs='-c "tmsh show running-config"')
print(x.commandResult)
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Malware_Mike_37
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Nov 21, 2018

I was able to get the running config to show with Python, please see the code below:

 

from f5.bigip import ManagementRoot
mgmt = ManagementRoot("your_f5_ip", 'username', 'password')
x = mgmt.tm.util.bash.exec_cmd('run', utilCmdArgs='-c "tmsh show running-config"')
print(x.commandResult)
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    omkar1
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    Apr 25, 2020

    hey mike did you ever get a chance to modify data in a cleaner fashion.

     

    I am trying to do the same thing as you are

    • ngcarabajal's avatar
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      Apr 28, 2020

      It worked well for me. What do you mean to "modify the data".

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      omkar1
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      Apr 28, 2020

      i am trying to get the data in json or csv format

       

      i have stumbled upon rest api but that i don't have access to get the data using restapi

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      Apr 28, 2020

      Hey! I am actually working on that too. I don't have it JSON yet. Gonna work with a co-worker later on to do that but below is what I have that writes it to a file and parsed with a python library called ciscoconfparse. Documentation is in the comments. Hope this helps! I will reply later on when I get in JSON. 

      #!/usr/bin/env python3 
from f5.bigip import ManagementRoot
import sys
from ciscoconfparse import CiscoConfParse
 
#https://devcentral.f5.com/s/question/0D51T00006i7jW8SAI/python-show-runningconfig
#https://f5-sdk.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ F5 SDK documentation
#https://pypi.org/project/ciscoconfparse/ ciscoconfparse documentation
 
mgmt = ManagementRoot('IP', 'USERNAME', 'PASSWORD')
x = mgmt.tm.util.bash.exec_cmd('run', utilCmdArgs='-c "tmsh running-config"')
output = x.commandResult
 
with open('output.conf', 'w') as f:
    print(output, file=f)
 
parse = CiscoConfParse('pathtofile/output.conf', syntax='junos', comment='#')
 
for intf_obj in parse.find_objects('auth ldap system-auth'):
    samaccount = intf_obj.re_match_iter_typed('\s+login-attribute\s(.*)', default="")
    print(samaccount)
    if samaccount == 'samaccountname':
        print("Woohoo")