A Hands-on Guide to Netmiko and TextFSM

Introduction Within this article, we will look at two tools used in the world of network automation - Netmiko and TextFSM. Our examples will be based on a small topology consisting of 3 devices an Arista, a Cisco NXOS9K and a Cisco IOS router. Below shows the topology, Figure 1: Topology Netmiko netmiko [https://github.com/ktbyers/netmiko] is a multi-vendor SSH Python library that simplifies the process of connecting to network devices via SSH. This library adds vendor specific logic to para