Unable to get structured data using genie for Cisco ASA

[abhi1693]

I'm not sure if the issue is from this repository. Please let me know if I need to open this elsewhere.

The command I'm using is

salt asa_proxy nr.cli 'show version' FB=ASA1 use_genie=True

As per the docs from genie available parsers, show version is supported: https://developer.cisco.com/docs/genie-docs/

Name: salt-nornir
Version: 0.12.0
Summary: Salt-Nornir Proxy Minion SaltStack Modules
Home-page: https://github.com/dmulyalin/salt-nornir
Author: Denis Mulyalin
Author-email: d.mulyalin@gmail.com
License: MIT
Location: /usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages
Requires: nornir-salt, pydantic, nornir
Required-by: 

_Note: use_genie works for IOS devices_

[abhi1693]

Based on this: https://github.com/CiscoTestAutomation/genieparser/issues/414#issuecomment-816708946, I'm able to get the structured result

[abhi1693]

@dmulyalin do you have any insight for this issue? I'd like to close this to finalize a PR I've for a fix. I want to also ensure that this is the only way in case the issue did not arise from this repo.

[dmulyalin]

It seems that Netmiko does not enlist PyATS and Genie as its main dependencies. Specifying use_genie=True would not work unless PyATS and Genie installed on the system, one of the ways to install them would be to use salt-nornir install-extras prodmax or pyats:

pip install salt-nornir[prodmax]
or
pip install salt-nornir[pyats]

or install PyATS and Genie directly - which is what aforementioned workaround doing: pip install --upgrade pyats, genie

[abhi1693]

I'm already using the prodmax install but still got the above issue

[dmulyalin]

Hmm, that is strange, as prodmax extras pulls PyATS and Genie of version 22.1, while version suggested that it works is of 21.3.1, wondering if need to do pyats[full] install to make it work.

I have no access to ASA to test it by myself, would you be able to run this install and give it a go:

python3 -m pip install --upgrade pyats[full]==22.1
python3 -m pip install --upgrade genie[full]==22.1

[abhi1693]

Using your commands, it still works. Here are the relevant lines from pip install

Installing collected packages: pyats.contrib, pyats.robot, genie.telemetry, genie.trafficgen, genie.libs.robot
  Attempting uninstall: pyats.contrib
    Found existing installation: pyats.contrib 22.6
    Uninstalling pyats.contrib-22.6:
      Successfully uninstalled pyats.contrib-22.6
  Attempting uninstall: pyats.robot
    Found existing installation: pyats.robot 22.6
    Uninstalling pyats.robot-22.6:
      Successfully uninstalled pyats.robot-22.6
  Attempting uninstall: genie.telemetry
    Found existing installation: genie.telemetry 22.6
    Uninstalling genie.telemetry-22.6:
      Successfully uninstalled genie.telemetry-22.6
  Attempting uninstall: genie.trafficgen
    Found existing installation: genie.trafficgen 22.6
    Uninstalling genie.trafficgen-22.6:
      Successfully uninstalled genie.trafficgen-22.6
  Attempting uninstall: genie.libs.robot
    Found existing installation: genie.libs.robot 22.6
    Uninstalling genie.libs.robot-22.6:
      Successfully uninstalled genie.libs.robot-22.6
Successfully installed genie.libs.robot-22.1 genie.telemetry-22.1 genie.trafficgen-22.1 pyats.contrib-22.1 pyats.robot-22.1

Here is the result from the ASA that wasn't working (Note: This is a simulated ASA running inside EVE-NG hosted on cloudmylab.com)

{
  "version":{
    "asa_version":"9.15(1)1",
    "firepower_version":"2.9(1.131)",
    "asdm_version":"7.15(1)",
    "compiled_date":"Fri 20-Nov-20 18:48 GMT",
    "compiled_by":"builders",
    "system_image":"boot:/asa9151-1-smp-k8.bin",
    "boot_config_file":"startup-config",
    "hostname":"ASA-NB-TEST",
    "uptime":"3 days 16 hours",
    "platform":"ASAv",
    "mem_size":"2048 MB",
    "processor_type":"Xeon E5 series 2800 MHz",
    "disks":{
      "Internal":{
        "disk_size":"8192MB",
        "type_of_disk":"ATA Compact Flash"
      },
      "Slot 1":{
        "disk_size":"8192MB",
        "type_of_disk":"ATA Compact Flash"
      }
    },
    "bios_flash":"Firmware Hub @ 0x0, 0KB",
    "interfaces":{
      "0":{
        "interface":"Management0/0",
        "mac_addr":"5000.0003.0000",
        "intf_irq":11
      },
      "1":{
        "interface":"GigabitEthernet0/0",
        "mac_addr":"5000.0003.0001",
        "intf_irq":11
      },
      "2":{
        "interface":"GigabitEthernet0/1",
        "mac_addr":"5000.0003.0002",
        "intf_irq":10
      },
      "3":{
        "interface":"GigabitEthernet0/2",
        "mac_addr":"5000.0003.0003",
        "intf_irq":10
      },
      "4":{
        "interface":"GigabitEthernet0/3",
        "mac_addr":"5000.0003.0004",
        "intf_irq":11
      },
      "5":{
        "interface":"GigabitEthernet0/4",
        "mac_addr":"5000.0003.0005",
        "intf_irq":11
      },
      "6":{
        "interface":"GigabitEthernet0/5",
        "mac_addr":"5000.0003.0006",
        "intf_irq":10
      },
      "7":{
        "interface":"GigabitEthernet0/6",
        "mac_addr":"5000.0003.0007",
        "intf_irq":10
      }
    },
    "license_mode":"Smart Licensing",
    "license_state":"Unlicensed",
    "entitlement":"no feature tier and no throughput level configured",
    "licensed_features":{
      "max_vlans":{
        "status":"50"
      },
      "inside_hosts":{
        "status":"Unlimited"
      },
      "failover":{
        "status":"Active/Active"
      },
      "crypto_des":{
        "status":"Enabled"
      },
      "crypto_3des_aes":{
        "status":"Enabled"
      },
      "security_contexts":{
        "status":"2"
      },
      "carrier":{
        "status":"Disabled"
      },
      "anyconnect_premium_peers":{
        "status":"2"
      },
      "anyconnect_essentials":{
        "status":"Disabled"
      },
      "other_vpn_peers":{
        "status":"250"
      },
      "total_vpn_peers":{
        "status":"250"
      },
      "anyconnect_for_mobile":{
        "status":"Disabled"
      },
      "anyconnect_for_cisco_vpn_phone":{
        "status":"Disabled"
      },
      "advanced_endpoint_assessment":{
        "status":"Disabled"
      },
      "shared_license":{
        "status":"Disabled"
      },
      "total_tls_proxy_sessions":{
        "status":"2"
      },
      "botnet_traffic_filter":{
        "status":"Enabled"
      },
      "cluster":{
        "status":"Disabled"
      }
    },
    "serial_number":"9ATHR9HPXJV",
    "image_type":"Release",
    "key_version":"A",
    "last_modified_by":"enable_15",
    "last_modified_date":"12:47:41.032 UTC Sat Jul 16 2022"
  }
}

[dmulyalin]

Released nornir-salt /salt-nornir 0.13.0 that includes "full" extras for PyATS and Genie installation when using "prodmax" extras.

[abhi1693]

Closing this as it's working as expected