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Parse, Audit, Query, Build, and Modify Cisco IOS-style configurations

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Introduction: What is ciscoconfparse?

ciscoconfparse parses, audits, queries, builds, and modifies Cisco IOS configurations.

Docs

The latest copy of the docs are archived on the web

Pre-requisites

ciscoconfparse needs Python versions 2.6, 2.7 or 3.2+; the OS should not matter. If you want to run it under a Python virtualenv, it’s been heavily tested in that environment as well.

Installation and Downloads

The best way to get ciscoconfparse is with setuptools or pip. If you already have setuptools, you can install as usual:

# Substitute whatever ciscoconfparse version you like...
easy_install -U ciscoconfparse==1.0.1

Alternatively you can install with pip:

pip install ciscoconfparse

Otherwise download it from PyPi, extract it and run the setup.py script:

python setup.py install

If you’re interested in the source, you can always pull from the github repo or bitbucket repo:

  • From bitbucket:

    hg init
    hg clone https://bitbucket.org/mpenning/ciscoconfparse
  • From github:

    git clone git://github.com//mpenning/ciscoconfparse

FAQ

  1. QUESTION: I want to use ciscoconfparse with Python3; is that safe? ANSWER: As long as you’re using Python 3.2 or higher, it’s safe. I test every release against Python 3.2+.

  2. QUESTION: Some of the code in the documentation looks different than what I’m used to seeing. Did you change something? ANSWER: Yes, starting around ciscoconfparse v0.9.10 I introducted more methods directly on IOSConfigLine() objects; going forward, these methods are the preferred way to use ciscoconfparse. Please start using the new methods shown in the example, since they’re faster, and you type much less code this way.

  3. QUESTION: ciscoconfparse saved me a lot of time, I want to give money. Do you have a donation link? ANSWER: I love getting emails like this; helping people get their jobs done is why I wrote the module. However, I’m not accepting donations.

  4. QUESTION: Is there a way to use this module with perl? ANSWER: Yes, I do this myself. Install the python package as you normally would and import it into perl with Inline.pm and Inline::Python from CPAN.

  5. QUESTION: When I use find_children("interface GigabitEthernet3/2"), I’m getting all interfaces beginning with 3/2, including 3/21, 3/22, 3/23 and 3/24. How can I limit my results? ANSWER: There are two ways… the simplest is to use the ‘exactmatch’ option… find_children("interface GigabitEthernet3/2", exactmatch=True). Another way is to utilize regex expansion that is native to many methods… find_children("interface GigabitEthernet3/2$")

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Bug Tracker and Support

ciscoconfparse Support

Please report any suggestions, bug reports, or annoyances with ciscoconfparse through the bitbucket bug tracker.

Python Support

If you’re having problems with general python issues, consider searching for a solution on Stack Overflow. If you can’t find a solution for your problem or need more help, you can ask a question.

Cisco Support

If you’re having problems with your Cisco devices, you can open a case with Cisco TAC; if you prefer crowd-sourcing, you can ask on the Stack Exchange Network Engineering site.

Contributing

ciscoconfparse is developed with mercurial, and pushed to bitbucket. hg-git keeps github repo and bitbucket in sync, so it shouldn’t matter if you just want to fork the github repo.

Unit-Tests

I use the Travis CI project to continuously test ciscoconfparse on Python versions 2.6 through 3.3.

Click the image below for details; the current build status is:

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Author and Thanks

ciscoconfparse was written by David Michael Pennington (mike [~at~] pennington [/dot] net).

Special thanks:

  • Thanks to David Muir Sharnoff for his suggestion about making a special case for IOS banners.

  • Thanks to Alan Cownie for his API suggestions.

  • Sola Dei Gloria.

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