rmclain/virl-config-generator

PHP - Laravel application for injecting router configs into a .virl template.

Virl Config Generator (VCG)

VCG is a Laravel PHP artisan command to inject router configuration files into a .virl template. In short, this will scan folders within the virl-configs directory and then scan the subfolders within that directory to get a list of "projects". Next it will use the virl.base.virl file inside of the virl-configs directory as a template. Then it will inject the config file with the corresponding node name into the proper place of the virl template and save the template to the file system.

Requirements

• PHP >= 5.5.9
• OpenSSL PHP Extension
• PDO PHP Extension
• Mbstring PHP Extension
• Tokenizer PHP Extension
• Composer (https://getcomposer.org)

OR

• Vagrant
• Virtual Box
• Laravel Homestead (https://laravel.com/docs/master/homestead)

Install

• git clone https://github.com/rmclain/virl-config-generator.git
• cd virl-config-generator
• composer install

Execute

To run the script simply use the built in artisan command php artisian virl:generate {folder} Where {folder} is the directory of directories you wish to parse relative to the virl-configs folder.

Example

An example file has been included to demonstrate this process. If we run the command php artisian virl:generate ine-initial-sample Then this will, for example, map a node from our virl.base.virl file, in this case R1:

<node name="R1" type="SIMPLE" subtype="IOSv" location="57,131">
    <interface id="0" name="GigabitEthernet0/1"/>
</node>

Then it will pull all subfolders and grab virl-configs-ine-initial-sample/foundation-labs/lab1/R1.txt which is a configuration we pulled from the router. R1.txt will then be injected into a new .virl file and saved to the file system.