ncclient 0.7.1

Usage

from ncclient import manager

with manager.connect(host=host, port=830, username=user, hostkey_verify=False) as m:
    c = m.get_config(source='running').data_xml
    with open("%s.xml" % host, 'w') as f:
        f.write(c)

from ncclient import manager

with manager.connect(host=host, port=830, username=user, hostkey_verify=False, device_params={'name':'junos'}) as m:
    c = m.get_config(source='running').data_xml
    with open("%s.xml" % host, 'w') as f:
        f.write(c)

Changes | brief

v0.6.12

• Fix for accidental breakage of Juniper ExecuteRPC support

v0.6.11

• Support for custom client capabilities

• Restructuring/refactoring of example scripts

• Minor bugfixes

• Minor unit test refactoring

v0.6.10

• NETCONF call-home (RFC8071) support

• YANG 1.1 action support

• Nokia SR OS device handler support

• Removal of old ALU base-r13 API documentation

• Increased test coverage

• Variety of bugfixes and minor enhancements from a variety of contributors since 0.6.9 (see commit history)

• Thanks to all contributors!

v0.6.9

• Fix for breaking API change

v0.6.8

• Pulled due to accidental breaking API change

• Variety of small updates and bugfixes, but of note:

  • Support for namespace prefixes for XPath queries

  • edit-config parameter validation

  • Support for multiple RPC errors

  • API to get supported device types

  • Support for subtree filters with multiple top-level tags

• Thanks to all contributors!

v0.6.7

• Variety of bugfixes from a variety of contributors since 0.6.6 (see commit history)

v0.6.6

• Read ssh timeout from config file if not specified in method call

• Tox support

• Huge XML tree parser support

• Adding optional bind address to connect

v0.6.5

• Updated README for 0.6.5 release

v0.6.4

• Pin selectors2 to Python versions <= 3.4

• Fix config examples to actually use the nc namespace

• Fix: correctly set port for paramiko when using ssh_config file

• Test: add test to check ProxyCommand uses correct port

• Update commits for py3

• Enhance Alcatel-Lucent-support

• Juniper RPC: allow specifying format in CompareConfiguration

• Parsing of NETCONF 1.1 frames no longer decodes each chunk of bytes

• Fix filter in create_subscription

• Validate ‘with-defaults’ mode based on supported modes advertised in capability URI

v0.6.3

• Fix homepage link registered with PyPi

• SSH Host Key checking

• Updated junos.py to resolve RestrictedUser error

• Close the channel when closing SSH session

• Invoke self.parse() to ensure errors, if any, have been detected before check in ok()

v0.6.2

• Migration to user selectors instead of select, allowing higher scale operations

• Improved netconf:base:1.1 parsing

• Graceful exit on session close

v0.6.0

• Fix use of new Python 3.7 keyword, async

• Re-enable Python 3.7

v0.5.4

• Rollup of minor changes since 0.5.3

• Disablement of Python 3.7 due to async keyword issue

v0.5.3

• Add notifications support

• Add support for ecdsa keys

• Various bug fixes

v0.5.2

• Add support for Python 3

• Improve Junos ioproc performance

• Performance improvements

• Updated test cases

• Many bug and performance fixes

v0.4.7

• Add support for netconf 1.1

v0.4.6

• Fix multiple RPC error generation

• Add support for cancel-commit and persist param

• Add more examples

v0.4.5

• Add Huawei device support

• Add cli command support for hpcomware v7 devices

• Add H3C support, Support H3C CLI,Action,Get_bulk,Save,Rollback,etc.

• Add alcatel lucent support

• Rewrite multiple error handling

• Add coveralls support, with shield in README.md

• Set severity level to higher when multiple

• Simplify logging and multi-error reporting

• Keep stacktrace of errors

• Check for known hosts on hostkey_verify only

• Add check for device sending back null error_text

• Fix RPC.raise_mode

• Specifying hostkey_verify=False should not load_known_hosts

• Check the correct field on rpc-error element

v0.4.3

• Nexus exec_command operation

• Allow specifying multiple cmd elements in Cisco Nexus

• Update rpc for nested rpc-errors

• Prevent race condition in threading

• Prevent hanging in session close

v0.4.2

• Support for paramiko ProxyCommand via ~/.ssh/config parsing

• Add Juniper-specific commit operations

• Add Huawei devices support

• Tests/Travis support

• ioproc transport support for Juniper devices

• Update Cisco CSR device handler

• Many minor and major fixes

v0.4.1

• Switch between replies if custom handler is found

• Add Juniper, Cisco and default device handlers

• Allow preferred SSH subsystem name in device params

• Allow iteration over multiple SSH subsystem names.

Acknowledgements

• v0.6.11: @musicinmybrain, @sstancu, @earies

• v0.6.10: @vnitinv, @omaxx, @einarnn, @musicinmybrain, @tonynii, @sstancu, Martin Volf, @fredgan, @avisom, Viktor Velichkin, @ogenstad, @earies

• v0.6.9: [Fred Gan](https://github.com/fredgan)

• v0.6.8: [Fred Gan](https://github.com/fredgan), @vnitinv, @kbijakowski, @iwanb, @badguy99, @liuyong, Andrew Mallory, William Lvory

• v0.6.7: @vnitinv, @chaitu-tk, @sidhujasminder, @crutcha, @markgoddard, @ganeshrn, @songxl, @doesitblend, @psikala, @xuxiaowei0512, @muffizone

• v0.6.6: @sstancu, @hemna, @ishayansheikh

• v0.6.4: @davidhankins, @mzagozen, @knobix, @markafarrell, @psikala, @moepman, @apt-itude, @yuekyang

• v0.6.3: @rdkls, @Anthony25, @rsmekala, @vnitinv, @siming85

• v0.6.2: @einarnn, @glennmatthews, @bryan-stripe, @nickylba

• v0.6.0: Einar Nilsen-Nygaard

• v0.5.4: Various

• v0.5.3: Justin Wilcox, Stacy W. Smith, Mircea Ulinic, Ebben Aries, Einar Nilsen-Nygaard, QijunPan

• v0.5.2: Nitin Kumar, Kristian Larsson, palashgupta, Jonathan Provost, Jainpriyal, sharang, pseguel, nnakamot, Алексей Пастухов, Christian Giese, Peipei Guo, Time Warner Cable Openstack Team

• v0.4.7: Einar Nilsen-Nygaard, Vaibhav Bajpai, Norio Nakamoto

• v0.4.6: Nitin Kumar, Carl Moberg, Stavros Kroustouris

• v0.4.5: Sebastian Wiesinger, Vincent Bernat, Matthew Stone, Nitin Kumar

• v0.4.3: Jeremy Schulman, Ray Solomon, Rick Sherman, subhak186

• v0.4.2: katharh, Francis Luong (Franco), Vincent Bernat, Juergen Brendel, Quentin Loos, Ray Solomon, Sebastian Wiesinger, Ebben Aries

• v0.4.1: Jeremy Schulman, Ebben Aries, Juergen Brendel