Netmiko output blank - paloalto_panos

Hi,

I run Netmiko for bulk packet captures in AWS. It works well but there is never output when using the Palo Alto (paloalto_panos) device type. Output for Cisco works well. An example would be:

from netmiko import ConnectHandler

print("Connecting to Palo Alto to show clock")

virtual_palo = {
	'device_type': 'paloalto_panos',
	'host':   '192.168.1.100',
	'username': 'automationadmin',
	'password': 'ciscothenpalo123',
}
net_connect = ConnectHandler(**virtual_palo)


output = net_connect.send_command('show clock')
print(output)

print("Connecting to Cisco Switch to show clock")

cisco_switch = {
	'device_type': 'cisco_ios',
	'host':   '192.168.1.101',
	'username': 'automationadmin',
	'password': 'ciscothenpalo123',
}
net_connect = ConnectHandler(**cisco_switch)


output = net_connect.send_command('show clock')
print(output)

This is just an example by the way, I don’t run the scripts to show the clock 😃. The output would be:

python3 test_script.py
Connecting to Palo Alto to show clock

Connecting to Cisco Switch to show clock
10:18:46.830 BST Tue Jul 19 2022

You see the issue. By the way this is my Netmiko version:

pip show netmiko
Name: netmiko
Version: 4.1.1
Summary: Multi-vendor library to simplify legacy CLI connections to network devices
Home-page: https://github.com/ktbyers/netmiko
Author: Kirk Byers
Author-email: [e-mail]
License: MIT
Location: /usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages
Requires: ntc-templates, paramiko, pyserial, pyyaml, scp, setuptools, tenacity, textfsm

PAN-OS:

vm-license: VM-100
vm-cap-tier: 6.5 GB
vm-cpu-count: 2
vm-memory: 7857036
vm-mode: Amazon AWS
cloud-mode: cloud
sw-version: 10.1.5-h1

Any help would be great thanks.

[ktbyers]

I am going to re-open this issue (as it does indicate there is an underlying Netmiko bug which should be fixed).

[nathaniel-mills]

Current workarounds:

output = net_connect.send_command('show clock', expect_string=r">")
print(output)

Or:

output = net_connect.send_command_timing('show clock')
print(output)