----- "Geoff Crompton" <geo...@trinity.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
> This might be a crazy idea, but it just popped into my head, and I
> wanted to know if it's possible. Perhaps not possible right now, but
> possible in a theoretical sense.
>
> Is it possible that puppet could be modified to be used to manage
> switches that have a command line based interface?
>
> When I manage our Allied Telesis switches (which have a CLI similar
> to
> cisco IOS) I wonder if I could control it via a puppet-like node:
>
> node 'switch-101' {
> vlan { storage:
> id => 1234,
> untagged_ports => "3/e1, 4/e3",
> tagged_ports => "1/e1-2/e48",
> }
> include gvrp
> include stp::rstp
> stp::portfast { "1/e1-e48,2/e1-48",3/e1-48": }
> }
>
>
> Now I know we probably can't get puppet to run on the switch, but we
> can
> get a host to ssh or telnet to the switch, and to download the
> current
> configuration of the switch.
there was a past thread on this, it's not perfect but might give you something
to think about
http://www.mail-archive.com/puppet-...@googlegroups.com/msg05169.html
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