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Multivendor Network CLI Tools

📖 Live documentation

Multivendor CLI Configurator — live documentation

🌐 Live: https://gesh75.github.io/multivendor-cli-configurator/docs/ — an animated single-page guide: architecture diagrams, data flow, tech stack, and quickstart.

🗂️ Part of the gesh75 documentation hub — all my network & AI engineering project docs in one place.

A zero-dependency single-file HTML reference for network engineers — 69,000+ CLI commands across 17 vendors & tools in one searchable, comparable, shareable, deep-linkable interface.

🟢 Live demo: gesh75.github.io/multivendor-cli-configurator 📐 Architecture: docs/ARCHITECTURE.md

Architecture

What's here

Cheatsheet (index.html) — 69,854 commands across 17 vendors & tools, searchable, filterable, deep-linkable, with three view modes:

  • Cards (default) — auto-fit grid grouped by category
  • Table — sortable, exportable to CSV / Markdown / JSON / TXT
  • Compare — row-aligned, concept-aligned side-by-side matrix. N-vendor aware: defaults to the four with deepest coverage (Cisco · Juniper · Arista · FRR) and you filter to any subset of the 17. The view is paginated and virtualized so it stays fast even across the full corpus.

Each command card has:

  • Copy / + CLI / See equivalents ↗ — usual operations
  • 🔧 Automate — for common patterns, opens a drawer showing the NETCONF XML, ncclient Python snippet, and Ansible task pre-filled with the values from your specific command (extracts your IP, VLAN, ASN, etc. via regex and substitutes into vendor-correct templates).
  • 🔐 Secret mode — pick how generated snippets read credentials: Inline (literals, demo only), .env (python-dotenv, default — safer pasteboard), or keyring (OS credential store). Toggling re-renders every snippet in place, with a companion .env.example / keyring set one-liner alongside.

Opens in any modern browser. No build, no install, zero JS dependencies.

A legacy configurator.html is kept in the repo for archive purposes — a form-based CLI generator superseded by the cheatsheet's Compare view + Automate drawer. Not linked from the live site.

Command coverage

All 17 vendors & tools in one table (descending by command count). Network vendors and host/tool surfaces are tagged in the Type column.

Vendor / Tool OS / Surface Type Commands
Cisco IOS / IOS-XE (full Master Command List) · ASA 9.24 · NX-OS Network 22,135
Arista EOS Network 7,397
VyOS VyOS (full config tree) Network 6,289
Huawei VRP (bracketed prompts, iStack, Eth-Trunk, OSPF/BGP) Network 4,407
Aruba AOS-CX (1/1/N interfaces, MSTP/RPVST, VSX) Network 4,096
FRR FRRouting (vtysh) — docs + verified live on a 10-node Docker FRR lab Network 3,947
Microsoft Windows PowerShell networking cmdlets Host OS 3,352
Juniper Junos (MX / EX / QFX / SRX) Network 3,217
Extreme EXOS (VLAN-centric, STP, OSPF, SummitStacking, MLAG, ACLs) Network 2,782
Linux ip / iproute2 / host networking Host OS 2,592
FortiOS Fortinet (config / set / end blocks, REST cmdb) Network 2,380
Wireshark tshark capture + display filters Tool 2,130
PAN-OS Palo Alto firewalls (set rulebase security ..., virtual routers) Network 1,220
Mikrotik RouterOS (/path syntax, firewall filters, queues) Network 1,210
NVIDIA Cumulus Linux 5.x with NVUE (nv set/show) Network 1,153
Nokia SR Linux (declarative) + SR OS (os=sros, classic CLI) Network 1,101
SONiC OCP / Azure SONiC (Click CLI, show ip ...) Network 446
TOTAL (17) 69,854

By category (top 10): Interfaces 17,585 · Protocols 10,246 · System 7,942 · Troubleshooting 6,516 · Security 4,367 · VLAN 4,257 · Routing 2,907 · BGP 2,339 · Misc 2,022 · OSPF 1,602.

Modern-ops coverage (new): Telemetry (gNMI/gRPC/NETCONF/RESTCONF) · Automation (on-box Python/eAPI/JSON-RPC) · Provisioning (ZTP/PnP/POAP) · Optics (breakout + transceiver DOM) · Hardening (SSH ciphers/CoPP/MACsec) — spanning Cisco, Juniper, Arista, Nokia SR Linux, NVIDIA Cumulus, SONiC and more.

By role: router 43,055 · switch 22,656 · firewall 4,143.

Where the data comes from

Source Vendor(s) Commands
Cisco Press ENCOR / ENARSI Portable Command Guide (Empson + Gargano, 2020) Cisco ~1,400
Junos OS CLI Reference (Juniper Networks, official) Juniper ~2,000
Day One: Beginner's Guide to Learning Junos + Exploring the Junos CLI Juniper ~800
Arista EOS User Guide (Arista Networks, official) Arista ~2,800
Cisco Secure Firewall ASA 9.24 CLI Reference (official) Cisco ~335
FRR Master CLI Command Reference (docs ∪ live capture from a 10-node Docker FRR lab) FRR ~2,230
DCN multivendor corpus — VyOS, Huawei VRP, Aruba AOS-CX, Extreme EXOS, FortiOS, PAN-OS, RouterOS, NVUE, SR Linux, SONiC, plus Microsoft / Linux / Wireshark Many ~38,000
Community markdown + hand-curated seed All ~600
Modern-ops corpus (scripts/parse_modern.py) — telemetry, automation, ZTP, optics/breakout, hardening Many ~75
Cisco IOS Master Command List (official, all-releases index) — full IOS command surface Cisco ~17,700
Nokia 7750 SR OS Basic System Config Guide (official) — new os=sros surface Nokia ~40

All sources are publicly available. The Python pipeline under scripts/ is reproducible. Two maintenance utilities keep the corpus clean:

  • scripts/audit_data_quality.py — flags records where description prose has leaked into the title/cmd fields, and can quarantine unrecoverable ones.
  • scripts/clean_titles.py — derives clean command labels from the cmd field for any record whose title is prose. Idempotent; writes .titlebak backups.

🏛️ Architecture

One static page plus one JSON file. Network engineers use it directly in a browser; an offline, stdlib-only Python pipeline turns published vendor docs (and a live FRR lab) into a deduped commands.json; GitHub Pages serves the artifacts; and generated automation snippets target real devices out-of-band.

flowchart TB
    eng["Network Engineers - browse, search, compare"]:::actor
    docs["Vendor Docs - Cisco, Junos, EOS, FRR, DCN"]:::source
    lab["10-node Docker FRR Lab - live capture"]:::source

    subgraph SYS["multivendor-cli-configurator"]
      app["index.html - single-file web app"]:::core
      data["commands.json - 69,854 records"]:::store
      pipe["scripts Python ETL - parse, merge, clean"]:::build
    end

    pages["GitHub Pages - static host and auto-deploy"]:::ext
    devices["Target Devices - Netmiko, Ansible, NETCONF"]:::target

    eng -->|"open page"| app
    app -->|"fetch once"| data
    docs --> pipe
    lab --> pipe
    pipe -->|"generates"| data
    pipe -->|"push to main"| pages
    pages -->|"serves"| app
    app -.->|"copy snippets - user-run"| devices

    classDef actor  fill:#0e7490,stroke:#5eead4,color:#fff
    classDef source fill:#475569,stroke:#94a3b8,color:#fff
    classDef core   fill:#15803d,stroke:#39ff14,color:#fff
    classDef store  fill:#0d9488,stroke:#5eead4,color:#fff
    classDef build  fill:#a16207,stroke:#ffd152,color:#fff
    classDef ext    fill:#334155,stroke:#94a3b8,color:#fff
    classDef target fill:#b91c1c,stroke:#fb7185,color:#fff
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Full diagram set — system context, container/component map, runtime boot sequence, build pipeline, render-dispatch state machine, and the command data model — lives in docs/ARCHITECTURE.md.

Cheatsheet features

  • 3 view modes: Cards (default) · Table (sortable, exportable) · Compare (concept-aligned, N-vendor matrix, paginated/virtualized)
  • Filter rail: accordion sections for Vendor / OS / Role / Category, with an active-filter chip bar and live counts
  • Search prefix operators: vendor:juniper ospf · os:eos bgp · cat:VLAN · fav:
  • Cross-vendor "See equivalents ↗" per card — drawer with top-N matches per vendor
  • Favorites (★) persisted in localStorage + dedicated filter
  • CLI Builder drawer — queue commands across vendors, copy/download as .txt
  • Parse Output — paste raw show output, get a structured table
  • Export menu: .txt, .md, .csv, .json
  • Shareable workspace URL — restores filters, view, search, and CLI Builder queue
  • Deep-link state: ?cat=BGP&view=compare&v=Juniper
  • Syntax highlighting with placeholder pills ([IP], <vlan>, …)
  • Keyboard: / search · c/t/g views · b builder · s sidebar · f favorites · Esc
  • Light/dark mode toggle, persisted
  • Accessible & discoverable: valid heading outline, :focus-visible rings, aria-live status, skip link, plus Open Graph / Twitter / JSON-LD metadata, favicon, web manifest, robots.txt and sitemap.xml

Pipeline architecture

scripts/sources/*                      # vendor books, docs, exported corpora
            │
            ▼
scripts/parse_*.py                     # per-source parsers
            │
            ▼
scripts/*.json                         # intermediate per-source JSON
            │
            ▼
scripts/parse.py / merge_dcn_corpus.py # merge + dedupe across all sources
            │
            ▼
scripts/clean_titles.py                # repair prose-in-title records (idempotent)
            │
            ▼
commands.json                          # single source of truth
            │
            ▼
index.html  ←─ fetch('commands.json')

To add a new source:

  1. Drop the source into scripts/sources/ (gitignored) or add a parser.
  2. Run the relevant parse_*.py (or merge_dcn_corpus.py) to regenerate.
  3. Run python3 scripts/clean_titles.py and audit_data_quality.py to verify quality.
  4. Commit + push to main — GitHub Pages auto-deploys the live demo.

Tech

Single-file HTML, vanilla JS, no framework. Hosted on GitHub Pages. Python 3 + standard library only for the parsing pipeline.

Built and maintained by @gesh75.

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70,000+ CLI commands across 17 network vendors & tools (Cisco, Juniper, Arista, FRR, VyOS, Huawei, Aruba, Fortinet, Palo Alto, Nokia, Mikrotik, Extreme, NVIDIA, SONiC + PowerShell/Linux/Wireshark). Searchable cheatsheet with concept-aligned N-vendor compare + per-command NETCONF/ncclient/Ansible Automate drawer. Single HTML, zero deps.

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