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In the previous video, we already create a
device list menu. Now in this video, we are

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going to create a Configure menu. This menu
will be used to configuring the router

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Okay let’s just start. Open the visual studio
code. First let’s create a new url,

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here I create configure url.

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This url will be redirected to configure function inside views.py.

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Now let’s create configure function in views.py.
I will copy and paste the script from my note

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and I will explain to you what the script
means.

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Okay we have a long script here. Before I
explain about this script, let’s create

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the template file first. In this case, the
name of the template file is config.html.

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I already upload config.html file in the resource
section. So you can just download it and put it

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in the templates directory.

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Now let’s open the browser and navigate
to 127.0.0.1:8000/configure.

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Here we can see the configure menu. We can chose which device that we want to configure.

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Here we can put mikrotik command, and here we can put cisco command. When we click this submit button,

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the application will send the command that we put here to the devices.

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Okay now let’s understand config.html file
first.

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Here we define a looping to devices, this
is a variable from the context. If we see

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in views.py, we have devices in the context.

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Let’s back to config.html.

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Here we can see
a input check box, the value will be the id

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of each device. This choice will display the
ip address and vendor of each devices.

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Next we have text area for Mikrotik & cisco
command

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Last, we have a submit button here.

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Now let’s understand configure function
in the views.py file. Here we can see an if

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statement. If the method of the request is
post, this block script will be executed.

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The method of the request will be post if
we click the submit button like this.

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But if we access the page directly from the url,
the method of the request is get.

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If the method of the request is get, this
block script will be executed. First we get

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all devices here, and then put all devices
to the context. Last, we return a template file here.

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But if the method of the request is post,
First we get list device, This device is the

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name of device choice in the template file.
Here we can see that the name is device.

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Later, the device that we select in the browser,
will be saved to selected_device_id variable.

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Next, we define mikrotik_command here. This
mikrotik_command is the name of text area

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in the template file.

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And also we have a cisco command here.

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Next we looping to selected_device_id and
then we get the device from the database based

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on the device id.

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Here we can see that we use get_object_or_404
function, so we need to import it first.

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Then here we call SSHClient function from
paramiko. Because we use paramiko here, so

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we also need to import paramiko

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Here we connect to the router. We have a condition
here, if the vendor of the device is cisco,

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We do invoke shell and then send configure
terminal command. Here we looping to cisco_command,

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which is the variable that we have defined
before. Here we send the command to the cisco device.

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Don’t forget to use time sleep if
we doing network automation on cisco device

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using paramiko.

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Else, means that the device is not cisco,
which is mikrotik, we looping to mikrotik_command

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and send the command to the device using exec_command. We don’t need to invoke shell & time sleep here.

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Last, when the configuration is done, we will
be redirected to home page. Here we use redirect

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function, so we need to import it first.

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Let’s go to the browser, and refresh.

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Okay here we don’t have any error.

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We will not test the configuration function now, we will
do the test later in the next video

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and this is the end of this video. In the next video,
we are going to create a verify configuration menu.

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Thankyou for watching and see you on
the next video!