Adding New Vendors to Trigger

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Checklist

You need to account for the following:

Interactive (pty) sessions

• Does it support telnet?

• Does it support SSH? (Should work by default)

• What is the SSH auth method? (keyboard-interactive, password, etc.)

Async factory methods for remote execution

• For telnet: Can you use IoslikeSendExpect state machine?

• For SSH:

  • Does it support SSH exec? Try execute_exec_ssh

  • Does it support SSH shell? Try execute_generic_ssh

• What is the prompt pattern?

• What is the command to disable paging?

  • add ‘vendor_name’: ‘disable paging command\n’ to trigger.netdevices.NetDevice._set_startup_commands.paging_map dictionary.

• What is the command to commit/write to memory?

  • Account for ‘vendor_name’ in trigger.netdevices.NetDevice._set_commit_commands

Commando support

Add the vendor name to the following:

• add ‘vendor_name’ to settings.SUPPORTED_VENDORS

• add ‘VENDOR INTERAL NAME’: ‘vendor_name’ to settings.VENDOR_MAP

• add ‘vendor_name’: [‘DEVICE_TYPE’] to settings.SUPPORTED_PLATFORMS

• add ‘vendor_name’: ‘DEVICE_TYPE’ to settings.DEFAULT_TYPES

• add ‘vendor_name’ to settings.IOSLIKE_VENDORS

Error messages/timeouts

Determine how error messages are displayed, and what default timeouts (if any) need to be accounted for, for example:

"% Invalid input detected at '^' marker."