Having trouble with textfsm

[r1chardnoggin]

Hello,
I'm new here. I'm a network engineer by trade and I'm trying to get into network automation but I'm a noob on that front, so I'm trying to develop my skillset. I have installed netmiko and textfsm. However when I call on textfsm (net_connect.send_command (show ip interface brief', use_textfsm=True) in my code it fails to use it to parse the output and I just get back unstructured data. I'm not entirely sure what I'm missing. I believe I have installed everything correctly but like I said I'm knew to this arena.

I have the ntc-templates/templates directory as well as my export NET_TEXTFSM pointed to that location.
pip3 install ntc-templates shows requirements already satisfied.
pip3 list | grep netmiko shows 3.3.2

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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[jmcgill298]

@r1chardnoggin are you able to follow this example and it work? https://github.com/networktocode/ntc-templates#usage

output = net_connect.send_command("show ip interface brief")
from ntc_templates.parse import parse_output
output_parsed = parse_output(platform="cisco_ios", command="show ip interface brief", data=output)
print(output_parsed)

[r1chardnoggin]

@jmcgill298 that seems to work. Is this the desired format in order for things to work properly?

[jmcgill298]

That is not the method that you are trying to use, but that demonstrates that this project is installed and working as expected. You can get help with netmiko at https://github.com/ktbyers/netmiko/issues/new or on the #netmiko channel on networktocode.slack.com. I would make sure that your environment variables specifies the absolute path, and if that does not work, then follow up with the netmiko project.

[FragmentedPacket]

@r1chardnoggin Hopefully everything is sorted and working for you. If not, join our Slack that @jmcgill298 posted and join the #netmiko or #networktocode channel for help!