Juniper Networks has developed a python library to manage their devices. The library is called “junos-eznc” hosted at GitHub. This library is meant to be able to handle commands programmatically that you would usually do at a CLI. In order to use it, you will need to also install “ncclient” which implements NETCONF in python. The easiest way to install is to use PIP.
MacPro:~ aaronpaxson$ sudo pip install ncclient MacPro:~ aaronpaxson$ sudo pip install junos-eznc
If you receive an error regarding “error: ‘cc’ failed with exit status 1″, this is because you don’t have the C compiler installed. At first, I thought I just needed to install XCode. But, that’s not true. You DO need XCode, but you also need to command-line tools for XCode. To do that, run the command in Terminal “xcode-select –install”:
MacPro:~ aaronpaxson$ xcode-select --install
Choosing “Install” will install the correct tools. Then, try again.
