Aruba OS issues with "/"

[DonKawamura66]

Hi All,

I hope this is the good place for this, otherwise my apologies

all of a sudden I am getting issues when I'm using the "/" in my send_config_set() for netmiko

Below the code I'm using:
from netmiko import ConnectHandler # netmiko is the framework we use to connect to devices

aruba_mm = {
"device_type": "aruba_os",
"host": "Branches_MM.local",
"username": f'{userVar}',
"password": f'{passVar}',
}

with ConnectHandler(**aruba_mm) as net_connect:
config_commands = [f'CD "\u2215md\u2215Branches"', f'no ap-group ag-{sitecode}', 'write memory']
output = net_connect.send_config_set(config_commands)
print(output)

The command is successful when you don't use the "/", as you can see I tried using unicode, to no avail.

I keep getting "Timed-out reading channel, data not available."

Anyone some idea what this might be?

[DonKawamura66]

I have found the issue here. It had nothing to do with "/".
It had to do something with changing the folder on the mobility master.
The vendor module netmiko/aruba/aruba_ssh.py checks if the node is still in config mode by the following code:

` def check_config_mode(self, check_string="(config) #", pattern=""):
"""
Checks if the device is in configuration mode or not.

    Aruba uses "(<controller name>) (config) #" as config prompt
    """
    if not pattern:
        pattern = re.escape(self.base_prompt[:16])
    return super().check_config_mode(check_string=check_string, pattern=pattern)

`

The problem I had is solved in two ways:

1. changing the directory back to mynode as the snipped below
2. changing the Aruba vendor module to use less characters for the pattern (I have changed it to 14: pattern = re.escape(self.base_prompt[:14]))

Below a small snipped of the session logging:

(Branches_MM.local) [mynode] #no paging
(Branches_MM.local) [mynode] #configure term
Enter Configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z
(Branches_MM.local) [mynode] (config) #
(Branches_MM.local) [mynode] (config) #CD /md/Branches

(Branches_MM.local) [branches] (config) #write memory
Saving Configuration...
(Branches_MM.local) [branches] (config) #CD mynode
(Branches_MM.local) [mynode] #