Selenium Automation: Adding Cisco Meraki VPN exclusion rules

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?

Requirements

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

Clone and open project

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