pyATS | Genie - Getting Started!

WOW, what an amazing tool that the Cisco DevNet team has gifted to us. This thing does it all, and in this video, we will go from 0 to up and running. Let's check out how to parse data from a Cisco IOS device (3750G) to JSON, as well as compare config snapshots.

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[ninifel]

Absolutely awesome ! In 10 minutes, I learn all what I was looking for since 3 weeks. Thank you so much. Truly appreciate your video's.

[frankiefuryland]

Got the pyats tested command working. At time of writing (May 2023) this command provides the result:
genie create testbed interactive --output yaml/testbed.yml --encode-password

The interactive portion replaces the [SOURCE] part of the command to state your inputs will be the source.
Best of Luck, everyone!

[netdevgamer]

Loved it!! I am not sure if I had a different version of pyATS.., below command needed an "interactive" word ([source]) to get it work. But it was all good.
Genie create testbed interactive --output yaml/testbed.yml --encode-password

[AnthonyFranklinIsr]

Love this guy. First time watching his videos. Very efficient; gets the job done quickly, if you need to get started with Genie and pyATS, this is a great video.

[pedrohenriquediniz]

Great video cause it gives us a short brief of all the potential of the tools in a short video giving real examples.

[SimingYuan]

this is an awesome video on pyATS! Thank you for this awesome video.

[sedyyadollahi]

Excellent video! Great job showcasing pyATS|Genie!

[Robertbautistajr]

Data Knox! Thank you for this video! I was struggling getting started but your video was perfect. Really appreciate it!

[jonathanlynn]

This is the video I needed to watch :) PyATS rules!! Awesome content Knox!

[mikearrera]

Mr Knox, thank you for this continued awesome content. Really inspiring people, my friend!

[kielmoreland]

Great video Knox, as always. I saw in the comments below that someone was struggling with the step concerning the creation of the yaml testbed file, and how it would throw a fit asking for the [source] rather than simply than creating it automatically as shown in the video by Knox. I ran into this issue in both my Ubuntu 20.04 WSL and Ubuntu VM environments, and after doing some digging, thanks to a Reddit link shared by Patrick below, I finally got past the testbed file step by using the following command:

genie create testbed interactive --output yaml/testbed.yml --encode-password

I am running pyATS version 20.10. Forgive me, I'm not entirely sure why this command works rather than the command that Knox showed in the video, perhaps a change in pyATS versions...? The above command worked in my WSL and Ubuntu VM environments. I ran Knox's tutorial through WSL just to see if it would work and so far so good, and here's a screenshot of the parsed data from my core switch just for "proof" that WSL works:


Hope this is helpful.

[wsullivan]

Great Vid man, super concise, love it - i cant help but see and hear Charlie Day relation?

[DevNetDan]

Great vid! Exactly what I was looking for!

[sudiptoecebhaduri]

Hello Sir, thanks for Pyats intro. I am using Robot framework(test automation) to do all the stuff that you said. Just wanted to know the difference between Pyats and Robot.

[paullukacs]

Hey Data, awesome summary of the capabilities of pyATS and GENIE. Can you point me to documentation explaining how I can schedule snapshots and push any differences to either Webex or Microsoft Teams?

[manabmitra]

It's a great video and really helped me to start pyATS. I actually tested this in an lab environment and it worked as mentioned in the video. Is there any way we can creat a snapshot of received route/ospf routing table and compare.

[snipacode]

I noticed you used "show vlan" and "show version" with pyATS. Will this work on "show run?" I ask because Netmiko will not work on "show run."

[PyCloud]

Could any one give me a hand ? I got this error while running the example.
The result of section simple_test_1 is => FAILED

[alexeyleontiev]

Awesome, what book/guide would you recommend to deep understand pyats?

[dv]

the following arguments are required: [source]

pip install pyats.contrib
pyats create testbed interactive --output yaml/testbed.yaml —encode-password