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DevOps & Automation · Intermediate

Netmiko

A Python library that simplifies SSH connections to network devices for sending CLI commands and configuration across many vendors.

Definition

Built on Paramiko, Netmiko handles prompts, paging, and device-specific quirks via device_type. Methods include send_command, send_config_set, and save_config, and output can be parsed with TextFSM or Genie.

Example

ConnectHandler(device_type='cisco_ios', host='r1', username='u', password='p').send_command('show ip int brief', use_textfsm=True)

Exam tip

Netmiko is CLI over SSH (screen scraping), not model-driven.

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