Adding the initial version of the Netmiko Proxy and Execution modules#48260
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+1 This looks great, and will be particularly useful for us since we have many legacy devices that we want to automate using Salt, but for which we don't want to run a full proxy-minion(primarily campus access switches with relatively static configurations). |
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…lm proxy minions ``netmiko`` is already a dependency of ``napalm``, therefore we are able to expose all the ``netmiko`` functionalities from the ``netmiko`` execution module without having to run under a netmiko Proxy Minion: see saltstack#48260, which is the PR adding the netmiko execution module. These new functions added to the existing napalm module gate netmiko's features to be reused into the napalm Proxy Minions, by forwarding the authentication details and options which are already there. For example, the following function goes through the ``netmiko`` Execution Module, and napalm users can invoke it straight away to get direct access to basic SSH primitives: ``salt '*' napalm.netmiko_call send_command 'show version'``. (without any further configuration needed).
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What does this PR do?
Adding the initial version of the Netmiko Proxy and Execution modules (based on a third party library called netmiko). This gates the support to be able to interact and manage a large number of network operating systems (though over SSH!).
While the user can always manage the remote device through the
netmikoProxy, the Execution Module is flexible enough to be able to run arbitrary commands when running under a regular Minion, or a different flavour of a Proxy Minion (I have expanded more on this in the documentation).