Before reading further, make yourself familiar with How to Install Python and SSH with Python
import paramiko
import cmd
import time
import sys
buff = ''
resp = ''
ssh = paramiko.SSHClient()
ssh.set_missing_host_key_policy(paramiko.AutoAddPolicy())
ssh.connect('192.168.1.66', username='cisco', password='cisco')
ssh.set_missing_host_key_policy(paramiko.AutoAddPolicy())
chan = ssh.invoke_shell()
# turn off paging
chan.send('terminal length 0\n')
time.sleep(1)
resp = chan.recv(9999)
output = resp.decode('ascii').split(',')
#print (''.join(output))
# Display output of first command
chan.send('sh ip int br')
chan.send('\n')
time.sleep(1)
resp = chan.recv(9999)
output = resp.decode('ascii').split(',')
print (''.join(output))
# Display output of second command
chan.send('sh ver')
chan.send('\n')
time.sleep(1)
resp = chan.recv(9999)
output = resp.decode('ascii').split(',')
print (''.join(output))
ssh.close()
In python v3 one needs to decode output by output = resp.decode(‘ascii’).split(’,’), else the following error will appear:
TypeError: sequence item 0: expected str instance, int found
