ConnectHandler() takes 40 second to connect into 'fortinet' device

[Raqs1N]

Hi guys, I'm new to netmiko and I'm trying using it for automation. right now my first code to connect into a device was kind a cool except one thing - it takes 40 whole seconds to finish the "ConnectHandler(**kwargs)" function and connecting into my fortigate device.

I'm also new to python, so I couldn't understand how the library works and where does the connection function happen and when?

I hope some1 could help me here or I will have to create my own library to connect into my network devices through secureCRT shell, and write my own regex to find output and stuff which could be nice, but I rather not do that if the netmiko library is a good choice, but I can't afford waiting 40 seconds for execution everytime!

Thanks you very much , this is the code:

import netmiko as n import time

print(n.file)

device = { 'device_type': 'fortinet',
'host': 'my-ip',
'username': 'username',
'password': 'password'}

start = time.time() forti200D = n.ConnectHandler(**device) # It takes about 40 sec to create the connection end = time.time() print(round(end - start , 2)) #output = 41.27 seconds exactly each time I execute the program

print(forti200D.find_prompt()) # fast output , about 0.2 second long after the "print()" function

[ktbyers]

You probably need to include the Netmiko session_log and debug log output.

https://github.com/ktbyers/netmiko/blob/develop/COMMON_ISSUES.md#enable-netmiko-logging-of-all-reads-and-writes-of-the-communications-channel

[Raqs1N]

test.log

Here is the generated log, can't tell whats the problem, it shouldn't take 40 seconds. I hope you can tell whats going on.

Also, I can see there are some commands inserted automaticaly to the device's CLI, some of them aren't even valid, could you explain this?

[Raqs1N]

You probably need to include the Netmiko session_log and debug log output.

https://github.com/ktbyers/netmiko/blob/develop/COMMON_ISSUES.md#enable-netmiko-logging-of-all-reads-and-writes-of-the-communications-channel

[ktbyers]

Yeah, this driver is a bit of a mess and does a whole bunch of things after logging in. The code is here:

https://github.com/ktbyers/netmiko/blob/develop/netmiko/fortinet/fortinet_ssh.py#L17

It doesn't surprise me it is that slow given the set of things the driver is doing.

If someone wants to reimplement the driver, I am open to it. I don't have a Fortinet device so it will probably need to be someone else.

Regards, Kirk

[ritxsec]

add 'fast_cli' : True to the fortinet object, it reduced my SSH times from 42 seconds to 4.5 seconds

[ktbyers]

Updated Fortinet driver is located here:

https://github.com/ktbyers/netmiko/pull/3091