I want to do a comparison between a router configuration and template which is in a txt file using netmiko library. using the "show run" command to display all the router configuration, the comparison must be done block by block for example: the "access-list snmp" block from the output of the command with the "access-list snmp" block from template etc because some permet x.x.x.x are repeated in 3 ACL and I have to check that they are in these 3 ACL. I don't know how to do this comparison, if you have any ideas please help me. I tried to do it with this code but here the comparison is done line by line : cisco = { 'device_type': 'cisco_ios', 'host': 'router', 'username': 'admin', 'password': 'cisco123', } try ssh = ConnectHandler(**cisco) ssh.send_command('terminal length 0') output = ssh.send_command("show run") except Exception as e: # exceptions try: template_file = open("template.txt", "r") for l in file: line = l.strip() if line not in output: f = open("ligne_not_in_config.txt", "a") f.write(l, "is not in config\n") except FileNotFoundError as e: # exceptions Continue reading...
