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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