This commit adds a new feature to allow implementations of shell to
specify the command prompt regexp to be used. It allows adds a new
kwarg at instantiation to kick the remote device with a carriage return.
By default the kickstart flag is true but can be disabled by passing
kickstart=False.
On some switches, starting an SSH connection and immediately calling
recv() will result in a connection timeout. The switch requires some
input on the channel before it provides any prompt.
As such, this patch sends an empty command immediately upon connection,
triggering the switch to send a prompt which the shell can then
interpret.
Signed-off-by: Devananda van der Veen <devananda.vdv@gmail.com>
This commit provides an argument to provide a path to the private key
file. This will allow paramiko to use the key file as opposed to only
username / password combinations for CLI connections.
This commit add a new shared module shell that is used to build connections
to network devices that operate in a CLI environment. This commit supercedes
the issh.py and cli.py commits and removes them from module_utils.
Peter Sprygada
Peter Sprygada
Devananda van der Veen
Toshio Kuratomi
ogenstad