Huawei SmartAX 5800 - How to get around no terminal width

Hey, firstly: Thanks so much for your time and investment into Netmiko, did you wonder if it would be used this much? 😄

Unfortunately, Huawei SmartAX (not so smart) do not support to disable paging and I always run into issues because I need to send a space (enter will only output another line of config). I’ve managed to easily figure out how to overcome this issue and get around it manually but would like to implement it in my base class that I’ve created for the SmartAX.

The problem also occurs sometimes when sending a command, I might get an output like this:

mydevice.test.lab#display current-configuration
{ <cr>|ont<K>|port<K>|section<K>|service-port<K>|simple<K>||<K> }:

So I have to manually send an enter. I’m looking how to implement this possibly in the send_command function, would you recommend that? or in the find_prompt function? Mainly to match ‘{ <cr’ because this output also shows a lot on things like ACL entries each time you configure an ACL before it applies…

When I hit the paging limit (I know, they should just be able to properly implement SSH with no paging, but I’m trying my best here to work around it haha), I see things like:

"---- More ( Press 'Q' to break ) ----"

Which I need to send a space (not return because it only shows 1 line at a time with return)… I’ve got round this all by simply using the read_channel and catching if these appear in the output, then send enter/or space depending on which one appears…

I’ve looked a little into it myself but hope you don’t mind me posting this to point me in the right direction so I can figure out the rest? Thanks again for all your fantastic work

[BSpendlove]

Apologies! I’ve managed to get it working now 😄 Same issue as in the HuaweiBase class with the strip_ansi_escape_codes. After fixing some of the pattern/check_string for the different modes, it works as expected. Going to do some intensive testing 👍

[stvnkem]

The smart command is used to enable interactive operation. After that, if you input a command and press Enter, the system determines whether the keywords and parameters of the command are complete. If not, the system prompts you to enter the complete parameters. Meanwhile, the system displays the value range of the current parameters. If yes, the system runs the command. The “undo smart” command is used to disable the interactive operation. After that, the system runs the command instantly after you input a command and press Enter.

@BSpendlove Please have a try!