Python paramiko script, problems reading output during exec_command()

Question

Background: I am using python and paramiko to automate the process I go through everytime I have to hand in a program for a class. We use a command called

Answer 1

To workaround this and get the output of Ifconfig, you may wanna try to use the option get_pty=True

e.g:

import paramiko
ssh = paramiko.SSHClient()
ssh.set_missing_host_key_policy(paramiko.AutoAddPolicy())

def MonitorProcess():
    ssh.connect('10.2.0.230', username='ibmsys1', password='passw0rd', timeout=5)
    stdin, stdout, stderr = ssh.exec_command('/sbin/ifconfig', timeout=3, get_pty=True)
    #stdin, stdout, stderr = ssh.exec_command('/sbin/ifconfig') -> simple exec ex.
    print stdout.read()

MonitorProcess()