Generic Terminal Server Device Type

FYI, I have created a ‘terminal_server’ device_type. The general idea is that it won’t do anything post SSH connection (or won’t do much anyways).

Consequently, post SSH connection, you can then do:

>>> net_connect.write_channel("\r")
>>> net_connect.read_channel()
'\r\npynet-rtr1#'

In other words, you can directly interact with the terminal server to get logged-in to the end network device.

Once you have done this, you can then redispatch the connect (i.e. reset the device_type and class to the proper netmiko class.

>>> from netmiko import redispatch

# Dynamically reset the class back to CiscoIosSSH
>>> redispatch(net_connect, device_type='cisco_ios')
>>> 
>>> net_connect.device_type
'cisco_ios'
>>> net_connect.__class__
<class 'netmiko.cisco.cisco_ios.CiscoIosSSH'>

>>> net_connect.base_prompt
'pynet-rtr1'

I am looking for people that are able to test this?

[jeffdeham]

That worked! Thanks again for your help!

[briantsaunders]

@ktbyers initial testing of the terminal_server works with an Opengear terminal server. Was able to connect to the Opengear and authenticate. From there entered my credentials to log into the NXOS device and then use redispatch to change device type to cisco_nxos and issue a few commands.