Netmiko refers to python library used to simplify SSH connection to network devices. This tag should be used in conjunction with the [python] tag.
Multi-vendor library to simplify SSH connections to network devices. Netmiko was built on top of Paramiko library
The purposes of netmiko library are:
- Successfully establish an SSH connection to the device
- Simplify the execution of show commands and the retrieval of output data
- Simplify execution of configuration commands including possibly commit actions
- Do the above across a broad set of networking vendors and platforms
