Scripted guest account creation in Cisco Wireless Controllers

cisco_create_guest_user.py

controller = '10.0.0.0'  # Cisco controller IP
username = 'admin'
password = 'password_here'
user_file = 'users.csv'
description = 'ISEC User'
# Check WLAN ID from Controller!
# http://10.0.0.0/screens/apf/wlan_list.html
wlanID = '4' # IIIT-Guest

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############# DO NOT CHANGE THINGS BELOW ##########
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import mechanize
import cookielib
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
import html2text
import uuid

# Browser
br = mechanize.Browser()

# Cookie Jar
cj = cookielib.LWPCookieJar()
br.set_cookiejar(cj)

# Browser options
br.set_handle_equiv(True)
br.set_handle_gzip(True)
br.set_handle_redirect(True)
br.set_handle_referer(True)
br.set_handle_robots(False)
br.set_handle_refresh(mechanize._http.HTTPRefreshProcessor(), max_time=1)
br.addheaders = [('User-agent', 'Chrome')]
# The site we will navigate into, handling it's session
br.add_password('http://'+controller+'/', username, password)

def create_user(username, password):
	br.open('http://'+controller+'/screens/aaa/netuser_create.html')
	br.select_form(nr=0)
	br.form.set_all_readonly(False)
	br.form['username'] = username
	br.form['userpwd'] = password
	br.form['pwdconfirm'] = password
	br.form['UserWlanID'] = [wlanID,]
	br.form['description'] = description
	br.form['buttonClicked'] = wlanID
	br.submit()


with open(user_file, "r") as usernames:
	for username in usernames:
		username = username.strip()
		password = uuid.uuid4().hex[:8].upper()
		print username + ',' + password
		create_user(username, password)

users.csv

email1@domain1.com
email2@domain2.com
email3@domain3.com
email4@domain4.com
email5@domain5.com
email6@domain6.com