A Python utility for managing Netgear Plus managed switches via command line.
It connects via the switch built in web interface and allows you to switch ports on/off, read port status and reboot the switch strait out of your command line or automation service. Other features will be added as I find more time.
- Most Netgear Plus switches with a web interface like this one;
- GS308E (using numeric hash format)
- GS108PEv3 (using alphanumeric/MD5 hash format)
Please feel free to submit a bug request to support additional models. Note that if any of the following are showing 0 then there is a change to the web page format and I will need to find a way to extract the right values from your page.
Please also capture the cookie and hash formats with a web browser - Press F12 in your browser and go to the web console to capture the calls;
- For "DEBUG: Extracted cookie: 0" -> Value "Cookie" In the header of each request - starts with "GS108SID=..." for this line of switches but could be different
- For "DEBUG: Found hash value: 0" => Inspect the HTML request of device_reboot.cgi
- Toggle switch ports on/off
- Read port status
- Reboot switch
# Turn OFF port 4
python netgear_admin.py -a 192.168.0.163 -passwd <password> -p 4 -s off
# Turn ON port 4
python netgear_admin.py -a 192.168.0.163 -passwd <password> -p 4 -s on
# Read status of ports
python netgear_admin.py -a 192.168.0.163 -passwd <password> -r
# Reboot the device
python netgear_admin.py -a 192.168.0.163 -passwd <password> -reboot
- Python 3.x
- Standard libraries (no external dependencies)
- Only one port can be toggled per run
- The switch may return 'The maximum number of attempts has been reached' errors. In this case wait a few mintues before retrying
- Reboot might not work on your switch if the cookie changes or the hash returns 0 - please submit a bug as per "Supporting additional models" above