Establish a netconf connection and create a backup/xml dict

netconfbackup

def netcbackup(ip, NETCONF_USER, NETCONF_PASS):
    ''' This function will establish a netconf connection and pull the running config. It will write a temp file,
    read it and convert the XML to a python dictionary. Once parsed, we'll pull the system name of the device
    and create a folder structure by hostname and backup the running config.
    '''
    try:
        # Now let's connect to the device via NETCONF and pull the config to validate
        nc = netconfconn(ip, NETCONF_USER, NETCONF_PASS)
        # Grab the running configuration on our device, as an NCElement.
        config = nc.get_config(source='running')
        # XML elemnent as a str.
        xmlconfig = to_xml(config.xpath('data')[0])
        # Write the running configuration to a temp-file (from the data/configure xpath).
        saveFile('temp-config.xml', xmlconfig)
        # Lets open the XML file, read it, and convert to a python dictionary and extract some info.
        with open('temp-config.xml', 'r') as temp:
            content = temp.read()
            xml = xmltodict.parse(content)
            sys_name = xml['data']['configure']['system']['name']
            createFolder(f"Configs/{sys_name}")
            saveFile(
                f"Configs/{sys_name}/{sys_name}.txt", xmlconfig)
    except Exception as e:
        print(e)