Automating Mikrotik Backup using Python

When you have so many Mikrotik devices on your network, configuring all of them at once would be a difficult task. I have about 400 devices on my network and today I wanted to make a backup from them so I wrote the following python script for backup. you can do any command with this. I hope this is useful to you.

The project can be downloaded from GitHub:
https://github.com/pooriaghaedi/mikback/blob/master/mikback.py


requirements
I used python3.6 for this script.
you need to install Paramiko package and re for regular expression if you need.
   pip3.6 install Paramiko

Here we have 3 functions, connect, backup and generate_file_name.

Connect
     the connect function initiates a new ssh connection.

Generate_file_name
     it gets the Mikrotik's hostname from system identity and adds its IP to the end of it.

Backup
     creates a backup file with the name generated from the previous function and then download it using same ssh connection.

import paramiko
import socket
import os
import re
import datetime


class mikssh():
    def connect(self, address, username, password):
        try:
            s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
            s.connect((address, int(22)))
            s.shutdown(2)
            self.ssh = paramiko.SSHClient()
            self.ssh.set_missing_host_key_policy(paramiko.AutoAddPolicy())
            self.ssh.connect(hostname=address, username=username, password=password)
            remote = self.ssh.invoke_shell()
            return (remote)
        except paramiko.AuthenticationException:
            print("Authentication failed when connecting to {}".format(address))
        except Exception as e:
            print(e)

    def backup(self, name):
        try:
            rfile = '{}.backup'.format(name)
            stdin, stdout, stderr = self.ssh.exec_command(
                "/system backup save name={} dont-encrypt=yes".format(name) + "\n")
            print("------------")
            ftp_client = self.ssh.open_sftp()
            ftp_client.get('/{}'.format(rfile), '/Users/Mikback/{}.backup'.format(name))
            ftp_client.close()
        except Exception as e:
            print(e)

    def generate_file_name(self, address):
        try:
            stdin, stdout, stderr = self.ssh.exec_command("/system identity print" + "\n")
            output = stdout.read()
            print(re.search(r'name:.*', str(output)).group())
            identity = str(output).split('name: ')[1]
            name = identity[:12] + '-' + str(address)
            return (name)
        except Exception as e:
            print(e)