ciscoconfparse 1.2.7

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

Introduction: What is ciscoconfparse?

ciscoconfparse is a Python library, which parses through Cisco IOS-style (and other vendor) configurations. It can:

• Audit existing router / switch / firewall / wlc configurations

• Retrieve portions of the configuration

• Modify existing configurations

• Build new configurations

The library examines an IOS-style config and breaks it into a set of linked parent / child relationships. You can perform complex queries about these relationships.

Quotes

These are a few selected public mentions about CiscoConfParse; I usually try not to share private emails without asking, thus the quotes aren’t long at this time.

We don’t use Cisco

Don’t let that stop you. CiscoConfParse parses anything that has a Cisco IOS style of configuration, which includes:

• Cisco IOS, Cisco Nexus, Cisco IOS-XR, Cisco IOS-XE, Aironet OS, Cisco ASA, Cisco CatOS

• Arista EOS

• Brocade

• HP Switches

• Force 10 Switches

• Dell PowerConnect Switches

• Extreme Networks

• Enterasys

As of CiscoConfParse 1.2.4, you can parse brace-delimited configurations into a Cisco IOS style (see Github Issue #17), which means that CiscoConfParse understands these configurations too:

• Juniper Networks Junos, and Screenos

• F5 Networks configurations

Docs

The latest copy of the docs are archived on the web

Pre-requisites

ciscoconfparse requires 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.

Bug Tracker and Support

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

• 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.

• 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.

License and Copyright

ciscoconfparse is licensed GPLv3; Copyright David Michael Pennington, 2007-2014.

The ipaddr module is distributed with ciscoconfparse to facilitate unit tests. ipaddr uses the ASF License 2.0; ipaddr is part of the Python standard library, starting in Python 3.3 (it’s called ipaddress in Python3).