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Network Traffic Project Work Log

.env file to store credentials.
Read port data from a csv file and store in a list.
SSH to the devices and collect traffic data from devices using netmiko library in Python.
Resolving errors that occur during traffic collection.
Usage of else in exception handling.
Implement a retry mechanism to run when traffic fetching fails.
Extract the data from netmiko result using regular expressions and store in Python data structures. Used regex capture groups for extracting the required data.
Convert traffic utilisation to traffic rate by using port type.
Calculate total traffic of ports.
Write results to csv files.
import a function from a parent directory.
In version 2.0 rewrote the project to use Python classes.
Writing utility functions in a file named util.py