Read a Flow of Debug

[bgile]

Hey all, looking for a way to read a stream of debug and then capture it. I have to use netmiko in particular for this use case. I may be wrong, but, netmiko is built on finding the prompt, and in my case, I don't have a prompt, I just want to read the channel for "X" amount of time and then capture. Is anyone familiar with doing something like this?

Thanks

[ktbyers]

Netmiko has a read_channel() method which will read all the available data (at that point in time). So you can build a loop and sleep and keep reading using read_channel() for as long as you want.

You can get the underlying Netmiko connection inside of a Nornir custom task.

[bgile]

Perfect, thanks Kirk. I totally forgot about read_channel. Doh! I take it something like this should suffice to get me the underlying Netmiko connection object?

netmiko_conn = task.host.get_connection("netmiko", configuration=task.nornir.config)

[bgile]

Small inspection of the object:

netmiko_conn = task.host.get_connection("netmiko", configuration=task.nornir.config).connection

Gets me access to read_channel().