abdulrahmanabduatif / getnetbackup

GetNetBackup is a network automation tool that helps network administration and network engineers collect routers, switches, firewalls, and load balancers configurations and store them in a specific folder with a date titled. It is an easy-to-use tool and does not require a programming background

GetNetBackup

Description

GetNetBackup is a network automation tool that helps network administration and network engineers collect routers, switches, firewalls, and load balancers configurations and store them in a specific folder with a date titled. It is an easy-to-use tool and does not require a programming background.

Supported Vendors Devices

Below is the list of supported vendor devices by GetNetBackup based on the Netmiko library.

• Arista EOS
• Cisco ASA -Cisco IOS/IOS-XE
• Cisco IOS-XR
• Cisco NX-OS
• Cisco SG300
• HP Comware7
• HP ProCurve
• Juniper Junos
• F5 TMSH
• Aruba

Prerequisite

For GetNetBackup to function, th following system packages must be installed.

• Centos and RedHat

sudo yum groupinstall 'Development Tools' -y

sudo yum install libffi-devel  openssl-devel -y

• Ubuntu

apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev libffi-dev -y

Installation

Install python3 and git

• Centos and RedHat

sudo yum install python3 -y

sudo yum install python3-pip

sudo yum install git

• Ubuntu

apt-get install python3 -y

apt-get install python3-pip

apt-get install git

Install the GetNetBackup

git clone https://github.com/abdulrahmanAbduatif/GetBackup.git

cd GetNetBackup

You might need to run it with sudo (root)

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Configuration

• Setup the backup path configuration

The path configuration is in the GetNetBackup.conf. you can specify the backup path with the curly brackets. the default is files/backup/.

• Setup and understand the inventory

The inventory is just a CSV file that you can create yourself following the example file inventory-test.csv or use inventory-test.csv after updating it based on your device's inventory.

This is how it looks in Microsoft excel/Numbers

This is on terminal

IP: is just the devices IP address that you use to connect to the cli.

dtype: is the device driver type such as cisco_ios for cisco, juniper_jonos for juniper, and hp_procurve for HP. you can find the rest of supported devices HERE

vendor: This is to specify the vendor name so the tool can arrange them in the correct folder.

backup: This is important. Here where you add the command line to read the configuration form the specific vendor device. For example Cisco and HP show running-config and Juniper show configuration | display set | no-more.

Run GetNetBackup

Run the GetNetBackup.py file

$ python3 GetNetBackup.py -h

                Usage: python GetNetBackup.py [ OPTION ] [ ARGUMENT ]
                -h,  help       
                -i,  --InventoryPath  The path to the inventory CSV file

Take a backup

python3 GetNetBackup.py -i inventory-test.csv 

The output of the tools and The backup folder.

Note: If you have multi-vendor devices, the tool will divide them into folders with the vendor name and add them all to a folder with the day date.

Have FUN 😉 and Keep Automating 👾