In the sample, you can see how we automatically add (from the list) VPN exclusion rules after running the script.
Selenium is an open-source tool that automates web browsers. It provides a single interface that lets testers automate user actions using multiple programming languages such as Ruby, Java, NodeJS, PHP, Perl, Python, and C#. But what if we try to automate some tasks that we can do only by using Web GUI interfaces/Dashboard?
You can deploy app using Python
Download the latest Firefox driver here
Add Firefox driver in /usr/local/bin/geckodriver or edit path in fillLocalInternetBreakout.py file
git clone https://github.com/oborys/Selenium_automation_Adding_Cisco_Meraki_VPN_exclusion_rules.git
cd Selenium_automation_Adding_Cisco_Meraki_VPN_exclusion_rules
Open files cred and paste your variable that you use to access the Cisco Meraki dashboard email, dashboardPass, and 'url_sd_wan_and_traffic_rules' as URL for access SD-WAN and Traffic rules setting.
For Windows:
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Install pip
Pip (Python Package Installer), the official documentation for pip.
Usually Python3 comes with pip preinstalled. If you get an error "pip command not found", use the following command to install pip:
Download get-pip.py, make sure you're saving the file to Desktop
In your Command Prompt, navigate to Desktop.
cd Desktop
Execute get-pip.py
python get-pip.py
Now pip should work system-wide.
virtualenv
In your Command Prompt, enter:
pip install virtualenv
Launch virtualenv
In your Command Prompt navigate to your project:
cd Meraki_Network_Objects_automation
Within your project:
virtualenv env
Activate your virtualenv:
on Windows, virtualenv creates a batch file
\env\Scripts\activate.bat
to activate virtualenv on Windows, activate script is in the Scripts folder :
\path\to\env\Scripts\activate
Example:
C:\Users\'Username'\venv\Scripts\activate.bat
Another way to install pip
Save the "ez_setup.py" file to your desktop form https://bootstrap.pypa.io/ez_setup.py
In your Command Prompt navigate to Desktop:
cd Desktop
Execute ez_setup.py:
python ez_setup.py
install pip:
easy_install pip
Install dependencies
pip install -r requirements.txt
Run the app
set FLASK_APP=hello
flask run
python3 -m venv venv
Activate your venv
source venv/bin/activate
Install dependencies
pip install -r requirements.txt
export FLASK_APP=meraki_automation.py
Run the app
python fillLocalInternetBreakout.py