Genie DNAC

genie dnac is an easy way to communicate through REST api to your DNAC host. It sends rest api, parsed them with Genie parsers and write

To see what functionality genie dnac offers, execute the following in your linux terminal:

Usage:
  genie dnac [commands] [options]

Example
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  genie dnac interface --testbed-file tb.yaml --output snapshot1

Description:
  Command to learn DNAC features and save to file

      Available features: Interface, isis, ospf

Dnac Options:
  feature               List of Feature to learn, comma separated, interface, isis; all can instead
                        be provided to learn all features
  --testbed-file TESTBED_FILE
                        specify testbed_file yaml
  --devices [DEVICES [DEVICES ...]]
                        List of devices, comma separated, if not provided it will learn on all
                        devices (Optional)
  --output OUTPUT       Which directory to store logs, by default it will be current directory
                        (Optional)
  --single-process      Learn one device at the time instead of in parallel (Optional)
  --via [VIA [VIA ...]]
                        List of connection to use per device "nxos-1:ssh"

General Options:
  -h, --help            Show help
  -v, --verbose         Give more output, additive up to 3 times.
  -q, --quiet           Give less output, additive up to 3 times, corresponding to WARNING, ERROR,
                        and CRITICAL logging levels

Examples

Let’s see a scenario:

genie dnac interface isis ospf --testbed-file dna.yaml --output initial
# Wait some time, to see if anything has changed on the devices
genie dnac interface isis ospf --testbed-file dna.yaml --output modified
genie diff initial modified

If any devices has changed, the diff will let you know of the changes.

More examples can be found at: github_dnac.

Note

This feature is currently in prototype