Automation for Networkers

I like to show you this week a use case, which focuses on the work with existing configurations using the ciscoconfparse python module. The use case focuses on a quite common topic associated with campus networks: a later implementation of redundancy in the distribution (or aggregation) layer. At the end of this post, we’ll have created a configuration script for HSRP along with the readdressing of the VLAN switched virtual interface (SVI) interfaces based on the configuration from the existing switch.

Some weeks ago, I got the request to check parts from more than 5000 lines show inventory output for there end of live state. How to handle this at scale? My solution: parse the data using TextFSM.