Pathway Engineering’s Configuration Generator

Eliminating mistakes by making a developer responsible to fix them for you!

Introduction

When you’ve had to complete as many equipment upgrades as we have, the process of having to generate cutsheets and new configuration files is tedious and, well, kinda boring. “So let’s automate it instead,” someone said. Lo and behold, we delivered LIKE A BOSS.

The Config Generator is designed to take in existing configuration files, jack-to-port documentation, current device model and target model in order to speed up the process of pre-configuring equipment for Next-Gen project deployment. Hopefully we will get around to creating a Cisco-to-Dell and vice-versa extension, but we’ll that to Kent - because he slaves away his free time to work for some strange reason.

Contents:

Table of Contents

• 1. Getting started with the awesome configuration generator
  • 1.1. Installation and Preparation
    • 1.1.1. Dependencies
    • 1.1.2. Developer Dependencies
  • 1.2. Directory Structure
  • 1.3. Invoking the module from CLI
• 2. Order of operation
  • 2.1. migrate_ports() before vlan_extract()
  • 2.2. trunk_cleanup() before remove_mdix_and_dot1q()
  • 2.3. Call add_snooping() last
    • 2.3.1. Example
• 3. Just need port configuration? I gotchu
• 4. SwitchConfigGenerator API

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page