Pyinstaller with Nornir - plugin 'netmiko' is not registered

[baddington1667]

Trying to package a Nornir script with pyinstaller I am receiving the error. Any help on how to resolve this? It is worth noting, when not packaging with pyinstaller the script works.

nornir.core.exceptions.PluginNotRegistered: plugin 'netmiko' is not registered

• CSR8 ** changed : False ******************************************************
  vvvv snmpUpdate ** changed : False vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv ERROR
  Subtask: SNMP Update (failed)

---- SNMP Update ** changed : False -------------------------------------------- ERROR
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "nornir/core/task.py", line 98, in start
File "nornir_netmiko/tasks/netmiko_send_config.py", line 24, in netmiko_send_config
File "nornir/core/inventory.py", line 440, in get_connection
File "nornir/core/inventory.py", line 481, in open_connection
File "nornir/core/plugins/register.py", line 75, in get_plugin
nornir.core.exceptions.PluginNotRegistered: plugin 'netmiko' is not registered

^^^^ END snmpUpdate ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

main.spec:

-- mode: python ; coding: utf-8 --

block_cipher = None

a = Analysis(['main.py'],
pathex=['/Users/bradleyaddington/Repositories/NetworkAutomation'],
binaries=[],
datas=[('config.yml', '.'), ('configuration_files/auvikNetflowConfigG00_10.txt', '.'), ('configuration_files/auvikNetflowConfigGi000_10.txt', '.'), ('configuration_files/auvikNetflowConfigP1_10.txt', '.'), ('configuration_files/auvikNetflowConfigP2_10.txt', '.'), ('inventory/defaults.yml', '.'), ('inventory/groups.yml', '.'), ('inventory/hosts.yml', '.')],
hiddenimports=[],
hookspath=['hooks'],
runtime_hooks=[],
excludes=[],
win_no_prefer_redirects=False,
win_private_assemblies=False,
cipher=block_cipher,
noarchive=False)
pyz = PYZ(a.pure, a.zipped_data,
cipher=block_cipher)
exe = EXE(pyz,
a.scripts,
a.binaries,
a.zipfiles,
a.datas,
[],
name='main',
debug=False,
bootloader_ignore_signals=False,
strip=False,
upx=True,
upx_exclude=[],
runtime_tmpdir=None,
console=True )

[dmfigol]

Please format your code in markdown code blocks.
I haven't used PyInstaller, but I suspect when it packages the application, it doesn't bundles plugins to the appropriate entrypoints, so this code doesn't register anything:

nornir/nornir/core/plugins/register.py

Lines 19 to 25 in e4f6b8c

	def auto_register(self) -> None:
	discovered_plugins: Dict[str, T] = {
	entry_point.name: entry_point.load()
	for entry_point in pkg_resources.iter_entry_points(self._entry_point)
	}
	for k, v in discovered_plugins.items():
	self.register(k, v)

I would suggest to try registering the plugin manually in your code, e.g.:

from nornir.core.plugins.connections import ConnectionPluginRegister
from nornir_netmiko.connections import Netmiko

ConnectionPluginRegister.register("netmiko", Netmiko)

[baddington1667]

That worked! Thank you and also thank you for the link on markdown code blocks. I am relatively new to coding and GitHub so still learning.