AntoineOrsoni/Jinja2-YDK-ANE

This documents contains exercises about Jinja2, ncclient, Yang Development Kit and Advanced NETCONF Explorer.

Jinja2

This section has two folders :

• exercices with the exercices and instructions,
• solutions with example of solutions.

Exercices

Hello world

• Create your first template,
• Pass a variable.

Sub-templates

• Understand {% include %},
• Understand {% block %},
• Understand the usage of each.

Conditions and loops

• Use conditions (if, else),
• Use loops (for),
• Combine the two together,
• Whitespace control.

Variables and files

• import variables from a yaml file,
• storing the output in a file.

Mission

• Re-use what we have done before
• Create x sub-interfaces and equally spread y policy-maps between them.
  • try with 3000 sub-interfaces and 10 policy-maps

Advanced NETCONF Explorer

This section has two folders :

• exercices with the exercices and instructions,
• solutions with example of solutions.

ncclient

ncclient running config

• getting the running config from the device using ncclient
  • Open a NETCONF session using ncclient,
  • Get the running-configuration (XML) from the device

ncclient serial numbers

• Open a NETCONF session using ncclient,
• Get the running-configuration (XML) from the device

YDK

Getting the IP address of the interfaces of a device

• Connect to the device, via NETCONF, using YDK,
• Getting the list of interfaces of a device,
• Printing it nicely.

Getting the serial number of each component of a device

• Connect to the device, via NETCONF, using YDK,
• Getting the serial number of the device, for each component,
• Printing it nicely.

Documentation

Jinja2

https://jinja.palletsprojects.com/en/2.11.x/

ncclient

https://github.com/ncclient/ncclient

Available methods of ncclient manager

Operations are defined here.

OPERATIONS = {
    "get": operations.Get,
    "get_config": operations.GetConfig,
    "get_schema": operations.GetSchema,
    "dispatch": operations.Dispatch,
    "edit_config": operations.EditConfig,
    "copy_config": operations.CopyConfig,
    "validate": operations.Validate,
    "commit": operations.Commit,
    "discard_changes": operations.DiscardChanges,
    "cancel_commit": operations.CancelCommit,
    "delete_config": operations.DeleteConfig,
    "lock": operations.Lock,
    "unlock": operations.Unlock,
    "create_subscription": operations.CreateSubscription,
    "close_session": operations.CloseSession,
    "kill_session": operations.KillSession,
    "poweroff_machine": operations.PoweroffMachine,
    "reboot_machine": operations.RebootMachine,
}

YDK

YDK Github repo

https://github.com/CiscoDevNet/ydk-py

YDK documentation

http://ydk.cisco.com/py/docs/

Getting started

http://ydk.cisco.com/py/docs/guides/introduction.html

Advanced NETCONF Explorer

https://github.com/cisco-ie/anx