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Nexus 9000 NX-API Interface

This Python package is designed to provide an easy to consume interface for making connections to Nexus 9000 switches, leveraging the NX-API programmability feature.

This package is primarily developed to support several DevNet programmability sessions for Cisco Live but can be used for general purposes.

The package defaults - specifically, credentials and non-SSL communication - are hard coded with the Nexus 9000v virtual box appliance in mind. So, despite the 'bad practice' of hard coding user credentials, these credentials are well known.

Note: if you are looking for something more feature rich, you might consider the nxapi_plumbing package found here: https://github.com/ktbyers/nxapi-plumbing I have not used it myself nor do I know the author. Your mileage may vary.

Package Installation Instructions

Standard Python package installation methods, after activating your Python virtual environment (${VENV} is the path to your virtual environment).

source ${VENV}/bin/activate
python setup.py install

Packages Examples

Run the "show version" CLI command on the switch and extract the NX-OS version.

from nxapi import connection

switch = connection(
            host='localhost',
            port='80',
            username='admin',
            password='admin
         )

payload = switch.payload('show version')
response = switch.post(payload)

# Print the running switch version
print(response['result']['body']['nxos_ver_str'])