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Closing NAPALM connections automatically
See original GitHub issueWhen using NAPALM plugins connections stay open and can cause scripts to hang while waiting for the connections to timeout.
Forcing the connections to close using a task helps with this.
task.host.connections["napalm"].close()
Maybe this could be done automatically? It’ll require to find a way to know which connections are not useful anymore.
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I thought we could look into creating a “close” task so it’s easier for the user to explicitly close the connections or maybe do it automatically via the garbage collector by implementing some code in the del magic method.
The solution for this is in Nornir 2.0 is to use the Context Manager coupled with InitNornir. Should be details on this in PR #195