aciClient

A python wrapper to the Cisco ACI REST-API.

Python Version

We support Python 3.10 and up.

Installation

With pip:

pip install aciClient

With uv:

uv add aciClient

Installation for Developing

git clone https://github.com/netcloud/aciClient.git
uv sync --group dev

Usage

Initialisation

Username/password

import aciClient
import logging

logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)
logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)

proxies = {
    'http': 'socks5://127.0.0.1:1080',
    'https': 'socks5://127.0.0.1:1080'
}

aciclient = aciClient.ACI(apic_hostname, apic_username, apic_password, refresh=False, proxies=proxies)
try:
    aciclient.login()
    
    aciclient.getJson(uri)
    aciclient.postJson(config)
    aciclient.deleteMo(dn)
    
    aciclient.logout()
except Exception as e:
    logger.exception("Stack Trace")

For automatic authentication token refresh you can set variable refresh to True

aciclient = aciClient.ACI(apic_hostname, apic_username, apic_password, refresh=True)    

Certificate/signature

import aciClient
import logging

logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)
logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)

aciclient = aciClient.ACICert(apic_hostname, path_to_privatekey_file, certificate_dn)

try:
    aciclient.getJson(uri)
    aciclient.postJson(config)
    aciclient.deleteMo(dn)
except Exception as e:
    logger.exception("Stack Trace")

Examples

get config

tenants = aciclient.getJson('class/fvTenant.json?order-by=fvTenant.dn|asc')

for mo in tenants:
    print(f'tenant DN: {mo["fvTenant"]["attributes"]["dn"]}')

post config

config = {
 "fvTenant": {
  "attributes": {
   "dn": "uni/tn-XYZ"
  }
 }
}

aciclient.postJson(config)

delete MOs

aciclient.deleteMo('uni/tn-XYZ')

create snapshot

You can specify a tenant in variable target_dn or not provide any to do a fabric-wide snapshot.

aci.snapshot(description='test', target_dn='/uni/tn-test')

Subscriptions

You can subscribe to an ACI object with websocket and get near-instant updates on-change.
To use the subscriptions you have to:

• Login to ACI
• Open websocket to ACI
• Subscribe to an ACI object via aciClient.subscribe
• Refresh subscription to an ACI object via aciClient.subscription_refresh
• Handle messages sent from ACI through websocket

You can find example code here: examples/subscription.py

Contributing

Please read CONTRIBUTING.md for details on our code of conduct, and the process for submitting pull requests to this project.

Authors

• Marcel Zehnder - Initial work
• Andreas Graber - Migration to open source
• Richard Strnad - Paginagtion for large requests, various small stuff
• Dario Kaelin - Added snapshot creation

License

This project is licensed under MIT - see the LICENSE.md file for details.