Like many others on here, I utilize rancid's set of scripts to handle all the different platform's quirks for access. I then wrap that inside a perl script that can do things in parallel. I'm no developer by any stretch of the imagination but I can poke around in perl badly enough to write some tools. One perl module I've come across is Parallel::Fork::BossWorkerAsync. Using this module makes it incredibly easily to run many instances in parallel while each instance is just a bit different and then can gather data back from each session. Using some form of parallelization can significantly decrease the amount of time things take. I hope you find it as useful as I have.
http://search.cpan.org/~jvannucci/Parallel-Fork-BossWorkerAsync-0.06/lib/Parallel/Fork/BossWorkerAsync.pm Good Luck! --chip On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 12:52 PM, Abdullah Al-Malki <a.almalki1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi fellows, > I am supporting a big service provider and sometimes I face this problem. > Sometimes I want to access my customer network and want to extract some > verification output "show commands" from a large number of devices. > > What kind of scripting solutions you guys are using this case. > > Appreciate the feedback, > Abdullah -- Just my $.02, your mileage may vary, batteries not included, etc....