Welcome to NAPALM’s documentation!

NAPALM (Network Automation and Programmability Abstraction Layer with Multivendor support) is a Python library that implements a set of functions to interact with different network device Operating Systems using a unified API.

NAPALM supports several methods to connect to the devices, to manipulate configurations or to retrieve data.

Supported Network Operating Systems:

  • Arista EOS
  • Cisco IOS
  • Cisco IOS-XR
  • Cisco NX-OS
  • Juniper JunOS

extras

In addition to the core drivers napalm also supports community driven drivers. You can find more information about them here: Community Drivers

Selecting the right driver

You can select the driver you need by doing the following:

>>> from napalm import get_network_driver
>>> get_network_driver('eos')
<class napalm.eos.eos.EOSDriver at 0x10ebad6d0>
>>> get_network_driver('iosxr_netconf')
<class napalm.iosxr_netconf.iosxr_netconf.IOSXRNETCONFDriver at 0x10ad170f0>
>>> get_network_driver('iosxr')
<class napalm.iosxr.iosxr.IOSXRDriver at 0x10ec90050>
>>> get_network_driver('junos')
<class napalm.junos.junos.JunOSDriver at 0x10f8f61f0>
>>> get_network_driver('nxos')
<class napalm.nxos.nxos.NXOSDriver at 0x10f9304c8>
>>> get_network_driver('ios')
<class napalm.ios.ios.IOSDriver at 0x10f9b0738>