Re: Scripts for IOS upgrades
You may want to look into this: Nortel Networks Optivity Network Configuration System http://www.nortelnetworks.com/products/01/unifiedmanagement/network/opt_ncs.html --- Tammy Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > All, > We support over 500 components and different models > of Cisco hardware. We need > to upgrade IOS levels in a fast way. > I would imagine using some type of script with > checks and balances would do the > trick. > > Has any one used such a creature...? > Where could I find a creature like this as fast, as > fast can be...? > > Thanks in advance for your help. > > > _ > FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: > http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html > Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/ _ FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Scripts for IOS upgrades
"A.Strobel" wrote: > > For God's sake do not even think about using CWSI RME (Resource > Manager Essentials)to upgrade IOSs. It sounds like you didn't have it setup properly. If you have the most recent version (Cisco Campus 2000 3.x), and have the devices properly loaded in RME *with* the login creditials correctly set for all fields (not just SNMP communities, but also passwords and TACACS creditials if you are using them), it works amazingly well. We have updated images on 150+ Cat29nnXL switches in under half an hour, and uploaded configuration fragments (such as setting access lists on telnet/SNMP) in half that time using CWSI. It can only work as well as the data you supply it. While it does a good job of autodiscovery and topology, you do at some point have to supply telnet/TACACS information to let it directly manipulate the images. I love the product, although I did have some bad experiences before getting everything "right" with RME. Don't give up yet. Jeff Kell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _ FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Scripts for IOS upgrades
a relativly simple way could be to use a program called 'autoexpect' its for *nix though :P (apologies if you said you were running NT or something, didnt read original message thoroughly) what it pretty much does is log commands you type in, and make them into a script. basicaly you can do those same commands next time by just running the script, thus saving time :P Justin _ FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Scripts for IOS upgrades
For God's sake do not even think about using CWSI RME (Resource Manager Essentials)to upgrade IOSs. It looks good (GUI), but it is damn slow, sensitive, and fails for all kinds of reasons. A few months ago we decided to upgrade IOSs on about 15 of our 2924 switches. With telnetting I could have done the upgrade in 150 minutes max. First, It took us a week to collect all the information that RME needed and take care of error messages and snmp communities and enable passwords. We had allocated 4 hours to do this job after we thought we are ready. To cut the long stroy short, after four hours, out of 15 only 3 were done with the help of CWSI RME, the other 12 we had to upgrade through telnetting. Easy,fast and reliable. The irony is, to upgrade by telnetting I used an old 486 laptop. CWSI needs (minimum!) 256 meg RAM, 4G HDrive and PII200 or above! A. Strobel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Tammy, > > Have you considered using CiscoWorks2000 RME software distribution > feature? I haven't actually used it myself, but if it works like it looks > it should, it might be just what you are looking for. Perhaps someone with > experience using this could give a better and more in depth response. > > As I understand it, you load software images into RME and it evaluates > the routers to see if they support it them and then uploads when specified. > > Of course, scripts are a lot less expensiveAnd it may take more > time getting CiscoWorks2000 installed and working exactly the way you want > than actually upgrading all of the routers, but hey. > > If you do come up with scripts for this, I'd be interested in looking > at them. > > - Matthew > > > > > "Tammy Slater" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@groupstudy.com > 11/17/2000 04:00 PM > > > > > > Please respond to "Tammy Slater" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > cc: > > Subject: Scripts for IOS upgrades > > > > > All, > We support over 500 components and different models of Cisco hardware. We > need > to upgrade IOS levels in a fast way. > I would imagine using some type of script with checks and balances would do > the > trick. > > Has any one used such a creature...? > Where could I find a creature like this as fast, as fast can be...? > > Thanks in advance for your help. > > > _ > FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: > http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html > Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > _ > FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html > Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.amexmail.com/?A=1 _ FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Scripts for IOS upgrades
Title: RE: Scripts for IOS upgrades can also use Cisco's router software loader. works more or less the same way. maybe not quite as fast as the method DT suggests. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Taylor, DonSent: Friday, November 17, 2000 2:54 PMTo: 'Tammy Slater'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: Scripts for IOS upgrades I used to do this a lot for Pacific Bell - all by myself. I created my own scripts; they aren't difficult at all. Here's my method: Group all your like models of routers together and stack them them on top of each other, plugged in and booted up. Get a copy of a terminal emulator (HyperTerm or whatever), the IOS image you need, and a TFTP server on a workstation. You'll need a console cable and an Ethernet crossover cable too. Console to the router and configure the router with a temporary e0 (or e0/0 or whatever) address on the same subnet as the workstation. Now go through the motions of TFTPing the image to the router. When you're done, just copy all of the information you entered into the router to a text file, e.g.: config term int e0 ip addr 10.1.1.1 255.255.255.0 (assuming the workstation is on the 10.1.1.0 subnet...) no shut exit copy tftp flash 10.1.1.2 (workstation IP) c1600-y-mz.112-16.P (image name) y (answer to 'do you want to overwrite current image') y (answer to 'do you want to erase flash') (I believe you will have to enter the final carriage-return (Confirm?) manually. Sit back and watch the go by. When they're done, reboot the router, switch your cables to the next router, and dump your text file to the terminal emulator to start all over again. When the last router is done, you can switch your console cable back to the first router to confirm that the new image is working properly - and as long as you never saved the config, the ethernet interface will still have it's original address. Hope this helps. (BTW, it's obviously even faster if you can use a FastEthernet interface...) - Don -Original Message- From: Tammy Slater [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 2:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Scripts for IOS upgrades All, We support over 500 components and different models of Cisco hardware. We need to upgrade IOS levels in a fast way. I would imagine using some type of script with checks and balances would do the trick. Has any one used such a creature...? Where could I find a creature like this as fast, as fast can be...? Thanks in advance for your help. _ FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Scripts for IOS upgrades
Tammy, Have you considered using CiscoWorks2000 RME software distribution feature? I haven't actually used it myself, but if it works like it looks it should, it might be just what you are looking for. Perhaps someone with experience using this could give a better and more in depth response. As I understand it, you load software images into RME and it evaluates the routers to see if they support it them and then uploads when specified. Of course, scripts are a lot less expensiveAnd it may take more time getting CiscoWorks2000 installed and working exactly the way you want than actually upgrading all of the routers, but hey. If you do come up with scripts for this, I'd be interested in looking at them. - Matthew "Tammy Slater" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@groupstudy.com 11/17/2000 04:00 PM Please respond to "Tammy Slater" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Scripts for IOS upgrades All, We support over 500 components and different models of Cisco hardware. We need to upgrade IOS levels in a fast way. I would imagine using some type of script with checks and balances would do the trick. Has any one used such a creature...? Where could I find a creature like this as fast, as fast can be...? Thanks in advance for your help. _ FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Scripts for IOS upgrades
Title: RE: Scripts for IOS upgrades I used to do this a lot for Pacific Bell - all by myself. I created my own scripts; they aren't difficult at all. Here's my method: Group all your like models of routers together and stack them them on top of each other, plugged in and booted up. Get a copy of a terminal emulator (HyperTerm or whatever), the IOS image you need, and a TFTP server on a workstation. You'll need a console cable and an Ethernet crossover cable too. Console to the router and configure the router with a temporary e0 (or e0/0 or whatever) address on the same subnet as the workstation. Now go through the motions of TFTPing the image to the router. When you're done, just copy all of the information you entered into the router to a text file, e.g.: config term int e0 ip addr 10.1.1.1 255.255.255.0 (assuming the workstation is on the 10.1.1.0 subnet...) no shut exit copy tftp flash 10.1.1.2 (workstation IP) c1600-y-mz.112-16.P (image name) y (answer to 'do you want to overwrite current image') y (answer to 'do you want to erase flash') (I believe you will have to enter the final carriage-return (Confirm?) manually. Sit back and watch the go by. When they're done, reboot the router, switch your cables to the next router, and dump your text file to the terminal emulator to start all over again. When the last router is done, you can switch your console cable back to the first router to confirm that the new image is working properly - and as long as you never saved the config, the ethernet interface will still have it's original address. Hope this helps. (BTW, it's obviously even faster if you can use a FastEthernet interface...) - Don -Original Message- From: Tammy Slater [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 2:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Scripts for IOS upgrades All, We support over 500 components and different models of Cisco hardware. We need to upgrade IOS levels in a fast way. I would imagine using some type of script with checks and balances would do the trick. Has any one used such a creature...? Where could I find a creature like this as fast, as fast can be...? Thanks in advance for your help. _ FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Scripts for IOS upgrades
All, We support over 500 components and different models of Cisco hardware. We need to upgrade IOS levels in a fast way. I would imagine using some type of script with checks and balances would do the trick. Has any one used such a creature...? Where could I find a creature like this as fast, as fast can be...? Thanks in advance for your help. _ FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
