Interfaces Report

This script generates a report on network interfaces. It excludes certain types of interfaces based on a regular expression.

Requirements

• Python 3.9 or higher
• The script uses environment variables for configuration. These can be set in a .env file.

Environment Variables

The script uses the following environment variables:

• IPF_URL: The URL of the IP Fabric instance.
• IPF_TOKEN: The authentication token for IP Fabric.
• IPF_VERIFY: Whether to verify the SSL certificate of the IP Fabric instance. This should be a boolean value (True or False). Default is False.
• REPORT_OUTPUT: The name of the output CSV file. Default is devices_interface_report.csv.

Usage

You can run the script with no arguments:

python interfaces_report.py

Output

The script outputs an Excel file with the report. The first sheet contains the report, with the % calculated, whereas the 2nd sheet, is the raw interface export from IP Fabric, with the same filter applied. So excluded interfaces, will not appear in this file.

The filename is generated by appending the current timestamp and -interfaces_report.csv to the REPORT_OUTPUT environment variable.

For example, if REPORT_OUTPUT is devices_interface_report.csv and the current timestamp is 2022-01-01_12-00-00, the output filename would be 2022-01-01_12-00-00-interfaces_report.csv.