Arista and show int status

[jshively37]

ISSUE TYPE

• Bug Report

TEMPLATE USING

Arista EOS Software image version: 4.20.7M

                device = {
                    'device_type': 'arista_eos',
                    'host': switch,
                    'username': user,
                    'password': passwd}

the host is a simple python comma-separated list of devices.

command = 'show int status' (I have tried show interface status too with the same result).

These values are being passed to another function that calls netmiko:
        print(f"Running {command} on {switch}")
        net_connect = ConnectHandler(**device)
        net_connect.enable()
        output = net_connect.send_command(command, use_textfsm=True)
        return output

SAMPLE COMMAND OUTPUT

The output is being returned as <class 'str'>

If I change the command to another value in the index such as show inventory it returns the type correctly as <class 'list'>

I did verify that show int status is in the index file:
arista_eos_show_interfaces_status.template, .*, arista_eos, sh[[ow]] int[[erfaces]] st[[atus]]

[jmcgill298]

I am confused as to what issue you are reporting. I am assuming that the type of the object being returned is not really the issue, but that the data is not being parsed by TextFSM. What is actually returned? Is it a message, is it the contents of the command output from the device, or is it something else? Have you tried using this project with the command output? Have you tried CliTable or TextFSM with the command output?

[jshively37]

Basically the show int status is not returning structured data but instead is returning just text string.

I brought the issue up to a co-worker and it appears the newer Arista code integrated a flags field in the output of show int status. This is probably why the returned data does not match the template.

We are going to play around with the template file and see if we can get it work properly. If we do I will post the changes.

[FragmentedPacket]

@jshively37 Just wanted to see if there was an update on your end?

[FragmentedPacket]

@jshively37 I'm going to go ahead and close this issue.

If you guys fixed the issue and would like to share the changes to to the template then you're more than welcome to submit a PR back for this or you can post the output and we can help figure out a fix for your issue.