In this chapter, you will learn how to carry out basic configurations on a server with Telnet and SSH configured. We will begin by using the Telnet module, after which we will implement the same configurations using the preferred method: SSH using different modules in Python. You will also learn about how telnetlib, subprocess, fabric, Netmiko, and paramiko modules work. For this chapter, you must have a basic knowledge of networking.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

• The telnetlib() module
• The subprocess.Popen() module
• SSH using fabric module
• SSH using Paramiko library
• SSH using Netmiko library