Nokia private config mode and prompt pattern - error when using private mode

Currently the config_mode() method for Nokia uses “edit-config exclusive” then searches for the pattern “(ex) [” as that is the prompt when entering that mode (this is when using MD-CLI).

I’m trying to use edit-config private so I’m not stepping on any other edits. When using the “edit-config private” mode in MD-CLI, the prompt is “(pr) [”. However, even when updating the pattern to use pr, it fails to enter config mode.

Example prompt:

[] A:user@Nokia# edit-config private INFO: CLI #2070: Entering private configuration mode INFO: CLI #2061: Uncommitted changes are discarded on configuration mode exit

(pr)[] A:user@Nokia#

The line that calls it looks like this: connection.config_mode(config_command='edit-config private', pattern='\(pr\)\[')

Am I formatting the pattern properly?

The API doc is a little confusing because it shows the format as '\\(pr\\)\\[', which didn’t work either. Also in the source code it uses a literal string r'\(pr\)\['.

Here is the error:

/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/netmiko/base_connection.py in config_mode(self=<netmiko.nokia.nokia_sros_ssh.NokiaSrosSSH object>, config_command=‘edit-config private’, pattern=r’(pr)[')

1623                 output += self.read_until_pattern(pattern=pattern) 1624             if not self.check_config_mode(): => 1625                 raise ValueError(“Failed to enter configuration mode.”) 1626         return output 1627 builtin ValueError = <class ‘ValueError’>

[ktbyers]

In Netmiko, you could probably use a pattern similar to this:

nc.send_command("edit-config private", expect_string=r"(pr)")
nc.send_config_set(config_commands, enter_config_mode=False, exit_config_mode=False)
# then need to manually exit config mode...

I somewhat suspect that would work, but you would need to test it.

[Menotomy]

Yes doing send_command for the commit statement did it. So configure private does work, just needs to be done “manually” through multiple send_command methods. Thanks for the help.