netmiko VS Oxidized

Curiously I've been googling this and not much out there. This post https://github.com/ktbyers/netmiko/issues/988 has the same problem but I don't think it got resolved.

If you can ssh into them, I'd try netmiko: https://github.com/ktbyers/netmiko . It's an ssh library specifically for network devices, and deals with some common issue you might encounter when using pure ssh.

You really should use something like https://github.com/ktbyers/netmiko and not be poking this stuff with SNMP.

Looks like that should already be incorporated in to Netmiko's Powerconnect class: https://github.com/ktbyers/netmiko/issues/1782

A good chunk of OpenStack is written in Python. The repositories have some very well-written code. F5 Networks has a well-maintained repository for their SDK. And, Kirk Byers wrote Netmiko, a fantastic library for working with network gear.

You could enable SSH on the esxi box and use Netmiko(https://github.com/ktbyers/netmiko) from Python to send VMware commands over the CLI. You can do most everything from the CLI and you can parse output as needed

Netmiko Source Code : Netmiko Github API reference (must check for more functionality) : Netmiko Doc

Python (open source): Reading other people's code is another way to launch your Python knowledge forward exponentially. As I was extremely interested in network automation, I used Netmiko heavily. And just as luck would have it, Kirk Byers (the author of Netmiko) was on the Network To Code Slack workspace too. I examined the Netmiko code base frequently and would then ask him the how's and why's of what I saw. His answers gave me insights that I hadn't gotten from anywhere else.

after using expect and TCL heavily for years, I can firmly say they suck at scale.

Ruby https://github.com/ytti/oxidized/blob/master/lib/oxidized/mo...

Oxidized supports PFSense natively - https://github.com/ytti/oxidized/blob/master/lib/oxidized/model/pfsense.rb

Oxidized? https://github.com/ytti/oxidized

Or run a decent setup to keep backups, like this one: https://github.com/ytti/oxidized

Check out Oxidized

You didn't mention about brand of the switches, but majority of vendors is covered with Oxidized: https://github.com/ytti/oxidized Just configure it with git backend, and you have version control and device backups. Also, if you wish, there are bundled sone extra scripts that could report git changes via email.