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New to Python:Having issues with pandevice

ansmittal — Mon, 30 Dec 2019 07:32:14 GMT

Getting below error when connecting to firewall:

>>> import pandevice

>>> fw = Firewall("137.117.105.197", “firewall”, “firewall@123”)

File "<stdin>", line 1

fw = Firewall("137.117.105.197", “firewall”, “firewall@123”)

SyntaxError: invalid character in identifier

>>> print fw.op("show system info")

File "<stdin>", line 1

print fw.op("show system info")

SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Re: New to Python:Having issues with pandevice

Rajesh12 — Tue, 31 Dec 2019 06:31:09 GMT

@ansmittal

I have never used pandevice module. But as an alternative, you get the system info by using either one of the below options.

1. By using PA API, requests module (to make API call) & xml.etree.ElementTree module (to parse the xml output of API call).

2. By using netmiko library. It allow to do SSH to multiple networking vendor devices. You can find more info here.

https://pynet.twb-tech.com/blog/automation/netmiko.html

Re: New to Python:Having issues with pandevice

gfreeman — Thu, 02 Jan 2020 17:13:01 GMT

This is a python syntax problem, you just need to fix your imports. You need to do either this:

import pandevice fw = pandevice.firewall.Firewall("137.117.105.197", “firewall”, “firewall@123”)

or this (recommended):

from pandevice.firewall import Firewall fw = Firewall("137.117.105.197", “firewall”, “firewall@123”)

Re: New to Python:Having issues with pandevice

ansmittal — Thu, 02 Jan 2020 18:41:13 GMT

Thanks.I got that figured out.I had another question, I am running below script

import pandevice
from pandevice import base
from pandevice import firewall
from pandevice import panorama
from pandevice import policies
from pandevice import objects
from pandevice import network
from pandevice import device
fw = firewall.Firewall("40.71.172.9", api_username= "Pa-pan", api_password= "firewall@123")
baseAddressA = "10.1.1."

for x in range(10):
AddressA = baseAddressA + str(x)
AddressAName = "AddressA-" + str(x)
fw.add(objects.AddressObject(AddressAName,AddressA)).create()

I am expecting objects between 1-9 to be created but I only see one object getting created i.e AddressA-9=10.1.1.9