Oxidized
Oxidized is a network device configuration backup tool. It's a RANCID replacement! (by ytti)
netmiko
Multi-vendor library to simplify Paramiko SSH connections to network devices (by ktbyers)
| Oxidized | netmiko | |
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| 49 | 23 | |
| 2,617 | 3,442 | |
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| 9.1 | 7.2 | |
| 5 days ago | 5 days ago | |
| Ruby | Python | |
| Apache License 2.0 | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Oxidized
Posts with mentions or reviews of Oxidized.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-20.
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Why Tcl?
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...
- Can you use Ansible to compare two saved configuration files?
- Configuration backups
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oxidized with Aruba and Pfsense
Oxidized supports PFSense natively - https://github.com/ytti/oxidized/blob/master/lib/oxidized/model/pfsense.rb
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Nightly BU of Cisco Devices
Oxidized? https://github.com/ytti/oxidized
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Suggestion: Can we have a day where we discuss new technologies we are currently using?
Or run a decent setup to keep backups, like this one: https://github.com/ytti/oxidized
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Track Changes on Switches/Routers/Firewalls
Check out Oxidized
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Version control for configs yes or no?
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.
- Backing up routers with RANCID
- Good job
netmiko
Posts with mentions or reviews of netmiko.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-03.
- Automate Your Network
- NETMIKO - Python - How to Interrupt or Cancel commands
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Can't get pass the login banner using Netmiko?
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.
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SSH-Script to restart multiple accesspoints
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.
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Long shot but I'll give Reddit gold to anybody with a working answer: How do I create a VLAN on a Ruckus/Brocade ICX 6450 using snmpset?
You really should use something like https://github.com/ktbyers/netmiko and not be poking this stuff with SNMP.
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CLI SSH works, but Netmiko/Paramiko results in "Authentication type (password) not permitted" error
Looks like that should already be incorporated in to Netmiko's Powerconnect class: https://github.com/ktbyers/netmiko/issues/1782
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What's the most well-written, cleanest open source python code you've ever seen?
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.
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Programmatically get list of VM names and IP's from a standalone ESXi server?
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
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Python's Netmiko template
Netmiko Source Code : Netmiko Github API reference (must check for more functionality) : Netmiko Doc
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I have €3,000 budget to go from SDR to Sales Engineer. How would you do it?
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.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Oxidized and netmiko you can also consider the following projects:
netbox-docker - 🐳 Docker Image of NetBox
netpalm - ReST based network device broker
NOC Project
ttp - Template Text Parser
phpIPAM - phpipam development repository
Paramiko - The leading native Python SSHv2 protocol library.
jazigo - Jazigo is a tool written in Go for retrieving configuration for multiple devices, similar to rancid, fetchconfig, oxidized, Sweet.
ntc-templates - TextFSM templates for parsing show commands of network devices
ZeroTier - A Smart Ethernet Switch for Earth
automate_your_network - The book in PDF format for all to enjoy!
traefik - The Cloud Native Application Proxy
textfsm - Python module for parsing semi-structured text into python tables.