RouterOS sermgr interaction via winbox Message protocol

service-test.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3

# https://github.com/jabberd/winbox
from winbox.common import *
from winbox.session import *
from winbox.service import *
import argparse
from getpass import getpass

def parse_args():
        parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description = 'description')
        parser.add_argument('-H', '--host', help = 'host name', required = True)
        parser.add_argument('-u', '--user', help = 'user name', required = False)
        parser.add_argument('-p', '--password', action = 'store', nargs = '?', help = 'password')
        args = vars(parser.parse_args())
        return args

port = 8291
user = 'admin'
password = ''

if __name__ == "__main__":
        args = parse_args()
        #print(args)
        if args['user']:
                user = args['user']
        if args['password']:
                password = args['password']
        host_port = args['host'].split(':')
        host = host_port[0]
        if len(host_port) == 2:
                port = int(host_port[1])

        print('[*] Establishing a winbox session with %s:%s' % (host, port))
        winbox = mtWinboxSession(host, port)
        if winbox.login_cleartext(user.encode(), password.encode()):
                print('[+] Logged into %s:%s' % (host, port))
        else:
                print('[-] Login failed')
                winbox.close()
                exit(1)

        print('[*] Getting services info...')
        services = mtServices(winbox)
        services.get_all()
        api_id = services.get_id(b'api')
        api_data = services.get_data(api_id)
        api_port = services.get_value(api_data, 2, U32)
        api_disabled = services.get_value(api_data, STD_DISABLED, BOOL) == True
        api_disabled_desc = {True: 'disabled', False: 'enabled'}
        print('api port = %s, the service is %s' % (api_port, api_disabled_desc[api_disabled]))

#       services.set_disabled(api_id, False)

        winbox.close()