Introduction to Python Network Programming

for Network Architects and Engineers

Vince Kelly TSA

Session ID: DEVNET-1042
Agenda

Examples that use upper layer services

Creating spreadsheets with openpyxl
The Higher Layer Protocols & APIs: First, XMLRPC

ACI APIC Firefox XMLRPC

Browser

Requests
module
Python Higher Layer Libraries
HTTP, etc.
TCP/IP PROTOCOL STACK

Web FTP Telnet SMTP SNMP DNS

80 20,21 23 25 161 53
Socket Library
Python

TCP UDP

IP

Device Drivers
Framer/
Protocol
B decode
Tx U Rx
Buffers S Buffers

LAYER 1 NIC
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Building A Spreadsheet Primer

http://openpyxl.readthedocs.io/en/default/changes.html

Spreadsheet Follow Along:

followCreateSpreadsheet.py Creates an openpyxl spreadsheet, sets col width, adds values
followExistingSpreadsheet.py Opens an existing spreadsheet and adds values to it at the highest row
followRetrieveSpreadsheet.py Retrieves information from a spreadsheet

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XMLRPC

XMLRPC

Higher Layer Libraries

Socket Library
HTTP, etc.
Python
TCP/IP PROTOCOL STACK

TCP UDP

IP

Device Drivers
Framer/
Protocol
B decode
Tx U Rx
Buffers S Buffers

LAYER 1 NIC
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http://openpyxl.readthedocs.io/en/default/changes.html

Spreadsheet Follow Along:

followXMLRPC_Client.py
followXMLRPC_Server.py
followXMLRPC_Client.py
followXMLRPC_Server2.py
Requests the current working directory from a remote machine
Executes an os.dirlist()
Creates and retrieves spreadsheet info on a remote machine
Opens an existing spreadsheet and adds values to it at the highest row
How do we tell if someone messed with our file?

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The Higher Layer Protocols: Next, REST & HTTP

ACI APIC Firefox XMLRPC

Browser

Requests
module
Python Higher Layer Libraries
HTTP, etc.
TCP/IP PROTOCOL STACK

Web FTP Telnet SMTP SNMP DNS

80 20,21 23 25 161 53
Socket Library
Python

TCP UDP

IP

Device Drivers
Framer/
Protocol
B decode
Tx U Rx
Buffers S Buffers

LAYER 1 NIC
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REST and HTTP

HTTP Follow Along:

followHTTP_Google.py Send a REST Request to Google using sockets
followScreenScrape.py Screen Scrape ww.cisco.com using Python urllib
followHTTP_WebServer.py Pretend we are an Apache Web Server using sockets

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TCP Send a REST Request to Google
followHTTP_Google.py

import socket

# sends and receives an HTTP GET header to google

c=socket.socket(socket.AF_INET,socket.SOCK_STREAM)

c.connect(('www.google.com',80))

c.sendall('GET / HTTP/1.0\r\n\r\n')

result = c.recv(65535)

c.close()

for line in result.split('\n'):

print line

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The Higher Layer Protocols: Next, REST & HTTP

ACI APIC Firefox XMLRPC

Browser

Requests
module
Python Higher Layer Libraries
HTTP, etc.
TCP/IP PROTOCOL STACK

Web FTP Telnet SMTP SNMP DNS

80 20,21 23 25 161 53
Socket Library
Python

TCP UDP

IP

Device Drivers
Framer/
Protocol
B decode
Tx U Rx
Buffers S Buffers

LAYER 1 NIC
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APIC REST Interface

HTTP Follow Along:

Requests.py Reads in XML file uses REST to send to APIC

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 Infrastructure Configuration Using REST API Only

Policy
Management

APIC Cluster

XML

Configuration Library
- XML requests.py
- YAML Log into UCS, ACI or NX-OS

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