This module is a thin layer of abstraction around the library. It exposes all core functionality.
These attributes control what capabilties are exchanged with the NETCONF server and what operations are available through the Manager API.
Dictionary of base method names and corresponding RPC subclasses. It is used to lookup operations, e.g. get_config is mapped to GetConfig. It is thus possible to add additional operations to the Manager API.
A Manager instance is created using a factory function.
Initialize a Manager over the SSH transport. For documentation of arguments see ncclient.transport.SSHSession.connect().
Exposes an API for RPC operations as method calls. The return type of these methods depends on whether we are in asynchronous or synchronous mode.
In synchronous mode replies are awaited and the corresponding RPCReply object is returned. Depending on the exception raising mode, an rpc-error in the reply may be raised as an RPCError exception.
However in asynchronous mode, operations return immediately with the corresponding RPC object. Error handling and checking for whether a reply has been received must be dealt with manually. See the RPC documentation for details.
Note that in case of the get() and get_config() operations, the reply is an instance of GetReply which exposes the additional attributes data (as Element) and data_xml (as a string), which are of primary interest in case of these operations.
Presence of capabilities is verified to the extent possible, and you can expect a MissingCapabilityError if something is amiss. In case of transport-layer errors, e.g. unexpected session close, TransportError will be raised.
Manager instances are also context managers so you can use it like this:
with manager.connect("host") as m:
# do your stuff
... or like this:
m = manager.connect("host")
try:
# do your stuff
finally:
m.close_session()
Retrieve all or part of a specified configuration.
source name of the configuration datastore being queried
filter specifies the portion of the configuration to retrieve (by default entire configuration is retrieved)
Seealso: | Filter parameters |
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Loads all or part of the specified config to the target configuration datastore.
target is the name of the configuration datastore being edited
config is the configuration, which must be rooted in the config element. It can be specified either as a string or an Element.
default_operation if specified must be one of { “merge”, “replace”, or “none” }
test_option if specified must be one of { “test_then_set”, “set” }
error_option if specified must be one of { “stop-on-error”, “continue-on-error”, “rollback-on-error” }
The “rollback-on-error” error_option depends on the :rollback-on-error capability.
Create or replace an entire configuration datastore with the contents of another complete configuration datastore.
source is the name of the configuration datastore to use as the source of the copy operation or config element containing the configuration subtree to copy
target is the name of the configuration datastore to use as the destination of the copy operation
Seealso: | Source and target parameters |
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Delete a configuration datastore.
target specifies the name or URL of configuration datastore to delete
Seealso: | Source and target parameters |
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rpc_command specifies rpc command to be dispatched either in plain text or in xml element format (depending on command)
source name of the configuration datastore being queried
filter specifies the portion of the configuration to retrieve (by default entire configuration is retrieved)
Seealso: | Filter parameters |
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Examples of usage:
dispatch('clear-arp-table')
or dispatch element like
xsd_fetch = new_ele('get-xnm-information')
sub_ele(xsd_fetch, 'type').text="xml-schema"
sub_ele(xsd_fetch, 'namespace').text="junos-configuration"
dispatch(xsd_fetch)
Allows the client to lock the configuration system of a device.
target is the name of the configuration datastore to lock
Release a configuration lock, previously obtained with the lock operation.
target is the name of the configuration datastore to unlock
Returns a context manager for a lock on a datastore, where target is the name of the configuration datastore to lock, e.g.:
with m.locked("running"):
# do your stuff
... instead of:
m.lock("running")
try:
# do your stuff
finally:
m.unlock("running")
Retrieve running configuration and device state information.
filter specifies the portion of the configuration to retrieve (by default entire configuration is retrieved)
Seealso: | Filter parameters |
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Request graceful termination of the NETCONF session, and also close the transport.
Force the termination of a NETCONF session (not the current one!)
session_id is the session identifier of the NETCONF session to be terminated as a string
Commit the candidate configuration as the device’s new current configuration. Depends on the :candidate capability.
A confirmed commit (i.e. if confirmed is True) is reverted if there is no followup commit within the timeout interval. If no timeout is specified the confirm timeout defaults to 600 seconds (10 minutes). A confirming commit may have the confirmed parameter but this is not required. Depends on the :confirmed-commit capability.
confirmed whether this is a confirmed commit
timeout specifies the confirm timeout in seconds
Revert the candidate configuration to the currently running configuration. Any uncommitted changes are discarded.
Validate the contents of the specified configuration.
source is the name of the configuration datastore being validated or config element containing the configuration subtree to be validated
** modified to only accept valid string as source argument. Elements no longer accepted - earies - 04/22/2013
Seealso: | Source and target parameters |
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Specify whether operations are executed asynchronously (True) or synchronously (False) (the default).
Specify the timeout for synchronous RPC requests.
Specify which errors are raised as RPCError exceptions. Valid values are the constants defined in RaiseMode. The default value is ALL.
Capabilities object representing the client’s capabilities.
Capabilities object representing the server’s capabilities.
session-id assigned by the NETCONF server.
Whether currently connected to the NETCONF server.
Some parameters can take on different types to keep the interface simple.
Where an method takes a source or target argument, usually a datastore name or URL is expected. The latter depends on the :url capability and on whether the specific URL scheme is supported. Either must be specified as a string. For example, “running”, “ftp://user:pass@host/config”.
If the source may be a config element, e.g. as allowed for the validate RPC, it can also be specified as an XML string or an Element object.
Where a method takes a filter argument, it can take on the following types:
A tuple of (type, criteria).
Here type has to be one of “xpath” or “subtree”.
- For “xpath” the criteria should be a string containing the XPath expression.
- For “subtree” the criteria should be an XML string or an Element object containing the criteria.
A <filter> element as an XML string or an Element object.