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Nimbostratus

Nov 05, 2018

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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...

Altocumulus

Nov 20, 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)

omkar1

Nimbostratus

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
Nimbostratus
Apr 28, 2020
It worked well for me. What do you mean to "modify the data".
omkar1
Nimbostratus
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

ngcarabajal

Nimbostratus

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")