Thank you guys for the input, I have determined to go with the plain old "expect" as it seems most easy to go with for this task. Frank
> Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 19:59:31 -0800 > Subject: Re: seeking a framework to automate router configurations > From: rustompm...@gmail.com > To: python-list@python.org > > On Wednesday, December 18, 2013 8:10:20 AM UTC+5:30, Frank Cui wrote: > > Hi Pythoners, > > I'm looking for a tool or framework in which I can do a slight modification > > to > > achieve the following task: > > "Asynchronously reset a large number of cisco routers back to their original > > configurations and push prepared initial configurations to them" > > I did find some similar existing work such as exscript and trigger, however > > I was stuck in the following two problems : > > 1. telneting to a non-default port number (other than 23) > > 2. handling of customized banner messages. > > can you give some hints on this ? > > For the low level details (exscript/trigger) I dont know. > However for the higher level organization issues you may want to look at > > 1. cuisine > http://stackful-dev.com/cuisine-the-lightweight-chefpuppet-alternative > > which uses > > 2. fabric http://docs.fabfile.org/en/1.8/ > > And maybe > 3. tox http://tox.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
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