This post shares some thoughts on some recent testing I’ve done with a Cisco Nexus 3000 and its built-in Python interpreter. It also touches upon why open and programmable could benefit the community with some concrete examples.
The application that I have started to build is all about more efficiently and more easily managing devices programmatically without using the CLI. You will see that the Python APIs (methods, functions, etc.) are still fairly limited on the 3K, so I did have to use the “CLI” function to send commands from Python to the native Cisco NX-OS CLI. Having access to Linux could have made it possible to modify the files needed instead.
The application that I have started to build is all about more efficiently and more easily managing devices programmatically without using the CLI. You will see that the Python APIs (methods, functions, etc.) are still fairly limited on the 3K, so I did have to use the “CLI” function to send commands from Python to the native Cisco NX-OS CLI. Having access to Linux could have made it possible to modify the files needed instead.
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