nxpydocs 0.1.7

Automated Business Ready Documents from the NX-OS Guestshell

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Automated NXOS Business Ready Documents from th guestshell Python

Setting up guestshell and Python3.8

Enable guestshell

switch# guestshell enable

Wait until the guestshell becomes active

Resize guestshell diskspace

guestshell resize rootfs 2000
guestshell resize memory 2688
guesthshell reboot

Update DNS

[cisco@guestshell ~]sudo vi /etc/resolv.conf
nameserver <dns server IP address>
domain <domain that matches NX-OS configured domain>

Update yum

[cisco@guestshell ~]sudo yum -y install epel-release
[cisco@guestshell ~]yum update -y
[cisco@guestshell ~]sudo reboot

Install Python3.8

[cisco@guestshell ~]sudo yum -y install openssl-devel bzip2-devel libffi-devel xz-devel

Confirm gcc is installed

[cisco@guestshell ~]gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-44)
Copyright (C) 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Download Python 3.8

[cisco@guestshell ~]sudo yum -y install wget
[cisco@guestshell ~]wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.8.12/Python-3.8.12.tgz

Extract and compile

[cisco@guestshell ~]sudo tar xvf Python-3.8.12.tgz
[cisco@guestshell ~]cd Python-3.8.12
[cisco@guestshell ~]sudo ./configure --enable-optimizations
[cisco@guestshell ~]sudo make altinstall

Verify Python3.8 is installed

[cisco@guestshell ~]python3.8 -V
Python 3.8.12

Cleanup

[cisco@guestshell ~]sudo rm -rf Python-3.8.12
[cisco@guestshell ~]sudo rm Python-3.8.12.tgz

Set Python3 as default Python version

[cisco@guestshell ~]sudo alternatives --install /usr/bin/python python /usr/local/bin/python3.8 60

[cisco@guestshell ~]sudo alternatives --config python

There is 1 program that provides 'python'.

  Selection    Command
-----------------------------------------------
*+ 1           /usr/local/bin/python3.8

Enter to keep the current selection[+], or type selection number: 1

Pip install cisco

pip install cisco