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.
Abdullah Al-Malki (a.almalki1402) writes: > 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.
> Abdullah Al-Malki (a.almalki1402) writes: >> 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.
------Original Message------ From: Abdullah Al-Malki To: na...@nanog.org Subject: accessing multiple devices via a script Sent: Jan 15, 2012 11:52 AM
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.
On Sun, 2012-01-15 at 18:56 +0100, Phil Regnauld wrote: > Abdullah Al-Malki (a.almalki1402) writes: > > 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.
I do this with cluster-ssh, as in some networks I have a generic script-daemon login that use to log into them all simultaneously. cssh uses tk and xterm, so its a bit long in the tooth.
New hotness to do this is something like keyboardcast, which can broadcast keyboard input to however many windows you want. Its currently broken on Ubuntu 11.10, but I think it works in .04.
> 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.
Hi Abdullah - Have you seen the new Resource Manager product from QualiSystems? It has this capability built into it and out of the box to support large numbers of devices.
Let me know off line where you are located and I can hook you up.
-----Original Message----- From: Abdullah Al-Malki [mailto:a.almalki1...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2012 12:53 PM To: na...@nanog.org Subject: accessing multiple devices via a script
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.
Is "full disclosure" expected on NANOG, or is it just polite? Like mentioning that Chuck Reynolds is a salesman for QualiSystems, and not just another network operator passing on what they might think will help?
> Hi Abdullah - Have you seen the new Resource Manager product from > QualiSystems? It has this capability built into it and out of the box to > support large numbers of devices.
> Let me know off line where you are located and I can hook you up.
> Regards,
> Chuck
> -----Original Message----- > From: Abdullah Al-Malki [mailto:a.almalki1...@gmail.com] > Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2012 12:53 PM > To: na...@nanog.org > Subject: accessing multiple devices via a script
> 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.
> Is "full disclosure" expected on NANOG, or is it just polite? Like > mentioning that Chuck Reynolds is a salesman for QualiSystems, and not > just another network operator passing on what they might think will help?
> On 01/15/2012 01:21 PM, Chuck Reynolds wrote: > > Hi Abdullah - Have you seen the new Resource Manager product from > > QualiSystems? It has this capability built into it and out of the box to > > support large numbers of devices.
> > Let me know off line where you are located and I can hook you up.
> > Regards,
> > Chuck
> > -----Original Message----- > > From: Abdullah Al-Malki [mailto:a.almalki1...@gmail.com] > > Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2012 12:53 PM > > To: na...@nanog.org > > Subject: accessing multiple devices via a script
> > 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
-- Regards, Shahab Vahabzadeh, Network Engineer and System Administrator
On Sun, 15 Jan 2012, Rhys Rhaven wrote: > Is "full disclosure" expected on NANOG, or is it just polite? Like > mentioning that Chuck Reynolds is a salesman for QualiSystems, and not > just another network operator passing on what they might think will help?
I think it's reasonable to expect that sales people identify themselves as such - including what vendor or re-seller they represent - on technical mailing lists. If sales solicitations are not permitted on the list, then it's also reasonable to expect that sales people respect that rule, same as everyone else on the list.
> On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 11:12 PM, Rhys Rhaven > <r...@rhavenindustrys.com <mailto:r...@rhavenindustrys.com>> wrote:
> Is "full disclosure" expected on NANOG, or is it just polite? Like > mentioning that Chuck Reynolds is a salesman for QualiSystems, and not > just another network operator passing on what they might think > will help?
> On 01/15/2012 01:21 PM, Chuck Reynolds wrote: > > Hi Abdullah - Have you seen the new Resource Manager product from > > QualiSystems? It has this capability built into it and out of > the box to > > support large numbers of devices.
> > Let me know off line where you are located and I can hook you up.
> > Regards,
> > Chuck
> > -----Original Message----- > > From: Abdullah Al-Malki [mailto:a.almalki1...@gmail.com > <mailto:a.almalki1...@gmail.com>] > > Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2012 12:53 PM > > To: na...@nanog.org <mailto:na...@nanog.org> > > Subject: accessing multiple devices via a script
> > 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
> -- > Regards, > Shahab Vahabzadeh, Network Engineer and System Administrator
> 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
clogin which is part of the RANCID suite. I've even done wrapper front ends that give operations device lists and configlets they can push with it. Or you can feed it command line options for one off pushes, etc.
I have been using PLINK (putty's lesser known sibling) scripts for some of our smaller customers to execute information gathering before a project in case of "excellent" documentation. I can usually whip up a script in a few minutes to get sh ru, sh ver and sh diag from 20 devices. Also been using it for a couple of small customers for config backup from webservers, switches, routers, firewalls and anything else with a telnet/ssh login.
-----Original Message----- From: Abdullah Al-Malki [mailto:a.almalki1...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2012 10:53 AM To: na...@nanog.org Subject: accessing multiple devices via a script
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.
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 4:52 AM, Abdullah Al-Malki
<a.almalki1...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
> 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.
> If your looking for something interactive, check out Mr. CLI
> Sent from my iPhone
> On Jan 15, 2012, at 12:52, 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.
> Thank you all for your recommendations. > I will sit this weekend and evaluate what fits into my requirements.
> Thanks all
> On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 5:05 AM, Rafael Rodriguez <packetjoc...@gmail.com>wrote:
>> If your looking for something interactive, check out Mr. CLI
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> On Jan 15, 2012, at 12:52, 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.
Hey did anyone mention Rancid..., just kidding.... I've used ciscocmd in the past, a little outdated but worth looking at (http://sourceforge.net/projects/cosi-nms/files/ciscocmd/) You might also have some fun writing your own expect scripts.
-- Michael Gatti main. 949.371.5474 (UTC -8)
On Jan 17, 2012, at 12:43 PM, Fabien Delmotte wrote:
> Le 17 janv. 2012 à 20:44, Abdullah Al-Malki a écrit :
>> Thank you all for your recommendations. >> I will sit this weekend and evaluate what fits into my requirements.
>> Thanks all
>> On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 5:05 AM, Rafael Rodriguez <packetjoc...@gmail.com>wrote:
>>> If your looking for something interactive, check out Mr. CLI
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>> On Jan 15, 2012, at 12:52, 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.
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.
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....
