[TriLUG] Do a lot of you program in Python?

[Greg Brown]

They do not.  Most are Cisco network devices of one flavor or another.


On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 1:02 AM, Joseph S. Tate <dragonstrider at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 7:08 PM, Greg Brown <gwbrown1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I took a class at a local tech school (and I've done some training via
> > iTunes U) but I can't find a working solution for one thing that will
> allow
> > me to displace perl and expect at my job which is something I'd like to
> do
> > in order to make Python my main language.
> >
> > And since I'm on the topic that thing is forked process management.  I
> have
> > a network consisting of ~10,000 devices and in order to run a job against
> > all of those devices and have it complete within a reasonable amount of
> > time I need to fork about 15 or 20 processes at a time, ssh or telnet to
> > each one, do whatever needs to be done to the devices then move on to the
> > next one.
> >
> > Basically I need to replace this perl module in python:
> >
> >
> http://search.cpan.org/~szabgab/Parallel-ForkManager-1.06/lib/Parallel/ForkManager.pm
> >
> > I don't return to work until the 13th and all my working examples are on
> a
> > server at work so I can't copy and paste anything more relevant at this
> > point.
> >
> > Greg
> >
> >
> If those devices have python available on them already, you should probably
> be using Ansible. Come to the Feb meeting to learn about it. </plug>
>
> Actually I don't know the mechanics of exactly how Ansible would handle
> that many devices, but it would be cheap and easy to try it to find out if
> you already had the network of devices handy.
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