topic RE: Get Network Inventory IPs with Script in ExtremeCloud IQ- Site Engine Management Center

Get Network Inventory IPs with Script

Terren_Crider — Thu, 28 Jun 2018 20:41:00 GMT

I'm working on a Python script to help with some networking tasks. Is there a way that I can get the IPs of my network devices from EMC programatically? Rather than hardcoding the IPs in the script, I'd like to use EMC as the authoritative source for that information. It would be even better if I could pull other attributes like OS and Version, as well.

I've been looking at the API, but I haven't seen a way to use that method to pull the information.

RE: Get Network Inventory IPs with Script

StephanH — Thu, 28 Jun 2018 21:12:00 GMT

Hello Terren,

are you looking for network devices like switches or end systems (=clients)?

All switch data you will receive with:

Get all devices (and there ips) with this command: "https://YourNetSightIP:8443/axis/services/NetSightDeviceWebService/getAllDevices". Take all ips form the answer to this request and put the ips in the command here:
"https://YourNetSightIP:8443/axis/services/InventoryWebService/getDeviceProperties?ipAddress=IpFromStepOne" in a loop of you script.

Best regards
Stephan

RE: Get Network Inventory IPs with Script

Terren_Crider — Thu, 28 Jun 2018 21:12:00 GMT

Yeah, I'm looking for the switches.

Thanks, I'll give this a shot.

RE: Get Network Inventory IPs with Script

Gates_Zeng — Fri, 29 Jun 2018 06:08:00 GMT

Hi Terren,

The APIs are defined in the wsdl file.

Here are several lines of python code for your reference:

import deep
def service (self, xmc_ip): wsdl_url = 'https://' + xmc_ip +':8443/axis/services/NetSightDeviceWebService?wsdl'
client = zeep.CachingClient (wsdl=wsdl_url, transport=self.transport, strict=False)
return client.bind ('NetSightDeviceWebService', "NetSightDeviceWebServiceSOAP11port_https1")

RE: Get Network Inventory IPs with Script

StephanH — Mon, 02 Jul 2018 00:59:00 GMT

Or if you don't like soap , you can use REST calls like:

import requestsuser = 'your user'
pw = 'your password'
xmcip = 'your xmcip:8443'
request = '/axis/services/NetSightDeviceWebService/getAllDevices'
r = requests.get('https://' + user + ':' + pw + '@' + xmcip + request, verify = False)