exscript ssh on python

Question

Im having problem with the exscript, i want to ssh to my cisco switches, but im having some trouble

I wrote 2 scripts,

with this one I dont have any problem, I can change the default gateway just by running the script and entering the user and password:

from Exscript.util.interact import read_login
from Exscript.protocols import SSH2

account = read_login()
enter code here`conn = SSH2()
conn.connect('192.168.86.12')
conn.login(account)
conn.execute('conf t')
conn.execute('no ip default-gateway')
conn.execute('ip default-gateway 192.168.68.10')

print "Response was:", repr(conn.response)
conn.send('exit\r')
conn.close()

But the problem comes here. I want to make it automatic, I dont want to enter the user and password by hand. So I wrote this script,

from Exscript.util.interact import read_login
from Exscript.protocols import SSH2

#account = read_login()
conn = SSH2()
conn.connect('192.168.86.12')
conn.login('user','password')
conn.execute('conf t')
conn.execute('no ip default-gateway')
conn.execute('ip default-gateway 192.168.68.10')

print "Response was:", repr(conn.response)
conn.send('exit\r')
conn.close()

But it gives me this error output..

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "nn.py", line 7, in <module>
conn.login('user','password')
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Exscript-DEVELOPMENT-py2.7.egg/Exscript/protocols/Protocol.py", line 591, in login
with self._get_account(account) as account:
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Exscript-DEVELOPMENT-py2.7.egg/Exscript/protocols/Protocol.py", line 567, in _get_account
account.__enter__()
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute '__enter__'

ps: I have tried also with paramiko, but it doesnt allow me to run multiple commands.

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 20 '13 at 19:34

The login function expects an Exscript.Account object. Load your username and password into an Account and pass that in.

from Exscript.protocols import SSH2
from Exscript import Account

account = Account('user', 'password')
conn = SSH2()
conn.connect('192.168.86.12')
conn.login(account)
# ...
conn.close()

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 24 '14 at 21:33

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from Exscript.util.interact import read_login
from Exscript.protocols import SSH2
from Exscript import Host, Account

account1 = Account('uname','pwd')
conn = SSH2()
conn.connect('192.168.86.12')
conn.login(account1)
conn.execute('conf t')
conn.execute('no ip default-gateway')
conn.execute('ip default-gateway 192.168.68.10')

print "Response was:", repr(conn.response)
conn.send('exit\r')
conn.close()

answered Dec 24 '14 at 21:33

skd

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While this may answer the question, it is better to have some explanation as to what the changes are that you made and why it works/should be that way. – Makyen Dec 25 '14 at 00:23
Apologies for the late reply. Its just the Host and Account module that needed to be imported. – skd Mar 07 '15 at 20:42

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Jun 04 '17 at 07:58

I am new in this stuff and getting lot of hard time in my job,hope you guys help in this.

While login in multi nodes insert a certain commands to reconfirm the status of links and this should be document in a "txt" file or "log" file for confirmation I reached till below

from Exscript.protocols import SSH2    
from Exscript.util.file import get_hosts_from_file    
from Exscript import Account

accounts = [Account('myuser', 'mypassword')]    
conn = SSH2()          
hosts = get_hosts_from_file('myhosts.txt') 

def do_something(job, host, conn):
    conn.execute('sh int description | i PE')

start(hosts, accounts, do_something)    
conn.send('exit\r')    
conn.close()

exscript ssh on python

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