ciscoconfparse

In my last post, I took a look on how to parse information from a Cisco IOS configuration using regular expressions. This post focuses on the same use case as the last one, but this time I use the ciscoconfparse library. The use of the library doesn't mean that you can ignore regular expressions at all. You need at least a basic understanding of it. Before continuing, I highly recommend to read my last post about Parse Cisco IOS configurations using RegEx. I will reuse some of the RegEx and skip the detailed explanation in this post.

Today I'd like to show you another use case using the ciscoconfparse python module. During the migration from a Cisco VSS to a Cisco Nexus vPC pair, I need to translate a lot of static ARP entries from an existing configuration. To do this translation manually is not very effective, because the configuration is expressed differently in NX-OS compared to Cisco IOS. From my perspective, this is an ideal case for ciscoconfparse and python.

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.