Cisco IOS Device Manager Files

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     CISCO IOS DEVICE MANAGER
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Written by : Bas van Hemmen
E-mail	   : bas@virtualink.nl
Version    : 1.1
Date       : 15 june 2022
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INFORMATION

This program can be used for the following:

- To collecting Cisco device information like: hostname, serial, model, IOS image, version, uptime, free flash memory (to CSV)
- To enable the SCP service on the device (automaticly before file transfers)
- To make a backup of the running-config and startup-config with SCP (with built-in MD5 hash comparison check) no TFTP/SFTP server needed.
- To save the running-config to the startup-config (write memory)
- To transfer a new image to the device with SCP (with built-in MD5 hash comparison check)
- To change the boot target to the new image (boot system flash:/)

It has got the following features:

- Error handling
- information and error logging to log file (Log will be appended)
- information and error logging to CSV file (Log will be overwritten each run)
- Transfers retry 3 times
- MD5 checks after file transfers to be sure the file is transferred without problems

INSTRUCTIONS

- The program needs Python 3
- The program needs the netmiko Python library (install with pip: pip install netmiko)
- The config.json file contains the general configuration. Please edit this file before running.
- The images.json file contains information about the available images. Please edit this file before running.
- The devices.txt file contains a list of device ip's used for processing. Please edit this file before running.
- The logs (txt/csv) are located in the "logs" folder
- The IOS image files must be placed in the "images" folder
- The configuration backups are transferred from the device to the "backups" folder Format: HOSTNAME_IP_SERIAL_CONFIG-TYPE

HOW TO RUN

Linux: python3 ./run.py
Windows: py .\run.py