Parsing Cisco CLI Output

crt_automation.utilities contains some useful functions for parsing Cisco output, such as long_int_name(). This function allows you to convert interface abbreviation to the full interface name. Such as converting Gi1/1 to GigabitEthernet1/1.

For parsing Cisco configurations, I recommend using another project, CiscoConfParse.

Here's an example of how you could use it in an automation script:

from ciscoconfparse import CiscoConfParse

sh_run_output = runner.get_command_output("sh run | b interface")
parse = CiscoConfParse(sh_run_output)
# Return a list of all active interfaces (i.e. not shutdown)
active_interfaces = parse.find_objects_wo_child(r"^interf", r"shutdown")