Backup Mikrotik

[SerhiiZahuba]

I have a question, maybe you can give me some advice. For device backups, I use https://cbackup.readthedocs.io/ the project has not been developed for a long time, but it suits me almost completely. It uses templates to connect via ssh\telnet to the device and makes a backup. Mikrotik recently updated the ssh version in its firmware and this tool stopped working - it connects to the router but sees a blank page. Napalm-ros can't show device config. Is it possible to adapt your tool to Mikrotik backups?

[DanSheps]

This relies on Napalm under the hood, so likely something broke the napalm portion of this.

I don't have a Microtik device, so if you could do the following from the netbox shell:

>>> from netbox_config_backup.tasks import napalm_init
>>> device = Device.objects.get(name="<device>")
>>> d = napalm_init(device, device.primary_ip)
>>> configs = d.get_config()
>>> configs.keys()
>>> len(configs.get('startup'))
>>> len(configs.get('running'))
>>> len(configs.get('candidate'))

Paste back any of the output if you could (you can sanitize your device name, nothing else should leak sensistive information)

[SerhiiZahuba]

d = napalm_init(device, device.primary_ip)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/opt/netbox/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/netbox_config_backup/tasks.py", line 58, in napalm_init
driver = napalm.get_network_driver(device.platform.napalm_driver)
File "/opt/netbox/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/napalm/base/init.py", line 97, in get_network_driver
raise ModuleImportError(
napalm.base.exceptions.ModuleImportError: Cannot import "napalm-ros". Is the library installed?

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "/opt/netbox/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/netbox_config_backup/tasks.py", line 60, in napalm_init
raise ServiceUnavailable("NAPALM driver for platform {} not found: {}.".format(
netbox.api.exceptions.ServiceUnavailable: NAPALM driver for platform ROS (mikrotik) not found: napalm-ros.

now exiting InteractiveConsole...
(venv) [root@Inventory netbox]# pip list module | grep ros
librouteros 3.2.0
napalm-ros 1.0.1
(venv) [root@Inventory netbox]#

[DanSheps]

What if you just run the python console and try to initiate napalm with the ros driver from there?

[SerhiiZahuba]

Sorry, can you describe in detail what needs to be done?

[DanSheps]

You need to test napalm outside of NetBox but in your venv

[SerhiiZahuba]

I tried to connect via python, did everything with https://github.com/joncutrer/python-tutorials/blob/master/net/automation/RouterOS-Automation-with-NAPALM.ipynb

The developers of this module wrote that they will add the output of information about the config in the next release

napalm-automation-community/napalm-ros#92 (comment)

[SerhiiZahuba]

Hello. If you still support this project. Napalm started to support config output for Mikrotik. From my env I can get the config for the device

print(device.get_config())

If you have the opportunity, please add support for Mikrotik.

[DanSheps]

Please open an issue and I will see what I can do.