Centralized Network Management for Configuration and Recovery Automation using Paramiko and Django Framework

Abstract

This study aims to implement network automation configuration, improve time efficiency, accelerate the centralized configuration and recovery process on MikroTik vCHR and RB70 series router devices using Paramiko, Django framework, and secure protocol SCP. The results of the experiments conducted showed a significant increase in time efficiency and a reduction in configuration and recovery time on 10 vCHR and RB750 router device nodes consisting of 496 script lines. Each router was allocated a data transfer speed of 1024 Kbps, for a backup file capacity range of 47 KB to 59 KB. The transfer speed has an estimated backup time calculated using a mathematical approach, which shows that each vCHR and RB750 device takes about 7.15 seconds to 7.79 seconds for the backup process. The uptime and downtime testing parameters including the percentage of ICMP loss, response time and unavailable ICMP), showed that during the configuration sending process, network performance remained optimal with an average availability reaching 100% and the results of the throughput required by the vCHR-C1 router were 50 Kbps, vCHR-C2 49 Kbps, vCHR-C3 49 Kbps, vCHR-C4 32 Kbps, vCHR-C5 50 Kbps and RB750-C6 38 Kbps, RB750-C7 37 Kbps, RB750-C8 37 Kbps, RB750-C9 38 Kbps, RB750-C10 22 Kbps. The entire configuration and recovery process went well without any data loss or errors in data backup