ciscoconfparse: Parse, Audit, Query, Build, and Modify Cisco IOS-style configurations
What is ciscoconfparse?
Short answer: ciscoconfparse is a Python library that helps you quickly answer questions like these about your configurations:
- What interfaces are shutdown?
- Which interfaces are in trunk mode?
- What address and subnet mask is assigned to each interface?
- Which interfaces are missing a critical command?
- Is this configuration missing a standard config line?
It can help you:
- Audit existing router / switch / firewall / wlc configurations
- Modify existing configurations
- Build new configurations
Speaking generally, the library examines an IOS-style config and breaks it into a set of linked parent / child relationships. You can perform complex queries about these relationships.
What if we don’t use Cisco?
Don’t let that stop you.
As of CiscoConfParse 1.2.4, you can parse brace-delimited configurations into a Cisco IOS style, which means that CiscoConfParse understands these configurations:
- Juniper Networks Junos
- Palo Alto Networks Firewall configurations
- F5 Networks configurations
It also handles anything that has a Cisco IOS style of configuration, which includes:
- Cisco IOS, Cisco Nexus, Cisco IOS-XR, Cisco IOS-XE, Aironet OS, Cisco ASA, Cisco CatOS
- Arista EOS
- Brocade
- HP Switches
- Force 10 Switches
- Dell PowerConnect Switches
- Extreme Networks
- Enterasys
- Screenos
