Here are two nice articles on how to use expect to automate Cisco router configuration:
http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1180/sam9903c/9903c.htm http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2001/11/27/router_tcl.html Regards, Maurizio ----- Original Message ----- From: "Howard C. Berkowitz" To: Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 9:28 PM Subject: Re: OT: Perl/Expect to Console? [7:54344] > >Expect is really awesome to do some stuff fast and don't worry about > >Perl telnet modules, sockets and stuff. I have a lab with 5 routers > >and I was sick of cleaning the configuration every time I started a new > >lab test, so I wrote a simple expect script (attached to this msg) to load > >a default config. If you have a PM2 or something, you could change this > >script to log into the PM2, reload the router and cleanup configs and IOS > >image. Would be cool to have those power supplys that you can control > >from the network, it should be a must have for those remote labs that rent > >rack space and people mess with configuration :) > > I do have APS power switches that can power cycle. I'll be logging > from the Linux logic box to a Cisco remote telnet server. I have the > Perl anyway running some reasonably complex network and medical > logic, so I'll have that anyway. I've heard good things about > Expect, but just have never touched it. > > > > >-- > >Daniel Lafraia > >Senior Software Developer CCNP/CCDP > >Earthlink MIS Group > > > >On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Howard C. Berkowitz wrote: > > > >> Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 17:35:27 GMT > >> From: Howard C. Berkowitz > >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Subject: OT: Perl/Expect to Console? [7:54344] > >> > >> I've written some Perl scripts (on a LINUX box) to drive some router > >> tests. Perl is something I've taught myself, and don't have the > >> experience with it I do with C. > >> > >> I got some vague advice from one of our people to write TCL/Expect > >> and plug that in -- another language to learn -- or to use a telnet > >> client. Well, of course telnet would work manually -- but can I > >> fork/spawn a subprocess and connect it to Perl, such that STDIN and > >> STDOUT of telnet appear as Perl files? > >> > >> Examples or pointers to them welcome. > >> > >> Howard > >Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; name="loadcfg.exp" > >Content-ID: > >Content-Description: > >Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="loadcfg.exp" > > > >Attachment converted: G4Int1:loadcfg.exp (TEXT/MSWD) (001A21E0) Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=54474&t=54344 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
