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How to handle the element provided by operation command in python

mss.support — Mon, 02 Mar 2020 21:26:34 GMT

Hi,

I have this little script, the idea is show in the console all address that I have in the running config.

But, when I work with the xml element. the print not show the addresses.

This is the result or rest api. to operation command "show config running"

I need to extract from xml the name object and ip-netmask.

Re: How to handle the element provided by operation command in python

gfreeman — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 17:42:47 GMT

Seems like you're using pandevice to do the op() call? If so, this is better since there is an object for address objects:

from pandevice.objects import AddressObject listing = AddressObject.refreshall(fw) for obj in listing: if obj.type != 'ip-netmask': continue print('Name: {0}) | ip-netmask: {1}'.format(obj.name, obj.value))

If you really wanted to do "'show config running" to get the answer, your xpath search is wrong. It should be ./result/config/devices/entry[@name='vsys1']/address/entry. At that location, the name is an attribute, and ip-netmask may or may not be there, so using find() is ok.

Re: How to handle the element provided by operation command in python

mss.support — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 20:43:17 GMT

Thank you so much!!!. I'm creating a script to get all object and compare to see the duplicates and take that info to perform a clean up in the firewall.

Again thanks a lot!!!