How to run tmsh(F5) command using python SSH Paramiko

Question

How can I run tmsh (f5) command and get output using SSH python ?

    ssh = paramiko.SSHClient()
    ssh.set_missing_host_key_policy(paramiko.AutoAddPolicy())
    ssh.connect('1.1.1.1', username='username', password='password')
    ssh.exec_command('ls')    //Working 
    # how to execute tmsh command using ssh ? 
    ssh.exec_command('tmsh show /sys CPU') // ???

If we use ssh.exec_command('tmsh show /sys CPU') it will provide blank output. — Suruchi Srivastava, May 21 '20 at 05:48
Start here: [Command executed with Paramiko does not produce any output](https://stackoverflow.com/q/56066517/850848). — Martin Prikryl, May 21 '20 at 05:52
There was not stderr and stdout.read() was blank, if i am using this command. I got the solution by changing the command and adding grep to it, please check below. — Suruchi Srivastava, May 21 '20 at 05:57

Suruchi Srivastava · Answer 1 · 2020-05-21T08:37:58.570

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While working on this I got the solution to solve this problem:

stdin, stdout, stderr =  ssh.exec_command("tmsh show /sys CPU | cat")

print stdout.read()

Using this command, I can get the tmsh output. Without grep it will return blank output in stdout.read().

edited May 21 '20 at 08:37

answered May 21 '20 at 05:55

Suruchi Srivastava

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Not sure how this help. But if it really helps, then using `cat` instead of `grep ''` would be a more straightforward solution. – Martin Prikryl May 21 '20 at 06:00

How to run tmsh(F5) command using python SSH Paramiko

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