Malas (Multi-vendor automation leverage at slouching)

What is 'Malas'?
Malas is a word from Bahasa Indonesia. The Malas word meaning is Lazy (Too inclined to avoid hard work).

What Malas really is?
Malas is a simple multi-vendor network automation program powered by netmiko for general configuration or retrieve information via SSH parallelly.

Why Malas though?
Malas is an abstraction layer in a wizard-type CLI for simplicity's sake.

Main features

• IPv4 target hosts.
• Supported platforms based on netmiko.
• Verify submitted User's file formats before accepted.
• Performing parallel* connectivity tests before remote executions.
  *Parallel tasks capabilities based on CPU's capabilities.
• Performing parallel* remote configurations or retrieve information.
  *Parallel tasks capabilities based on CPU's capabilities.
• Show remote output results immediately.
• Save remote output results per-remote host (Optional).
• Auto-install missing modules (If uninstalled accidentally).

WIP

• IPv6 target hosts
• Hostname target hosts

Getting started

Installation:

python -m pip install malas
or
python3 -m pip install malas

Start the program:

python -m malas
or
python3 -m malas

File formatting:

1. The device information list file's format is a set of three
   that contains IP address, username (has privilege), and password separated by double colons '::'
   per line in row formats, for example (Ignore the bracket):

   #==== Device Information List.txt ====#
   #10.0.0.2::netadmin::password         #
   #10.0.0.3::netadmin::password         #
   #=====================================#

2. The configuration file's format is one command per line in row formats, for example (Ignore the bracket):

   #========= Configuration.txt =========#
   #interface GigabitEthernet0/11        #
   #description Guest_Networks           #
   #IP address 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0 #
   #no shutdown                          #
   #exit                                 #
   #do write                             #
   #=====================================#

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