topic Advise for scripting for Cisco Devices in Network Security

Advise for scripting for Cisco Devices

Srinivas N — Fri, 21 Feb 2020 13:43:23 GMT

Hi Friends,

I am working on Cisco Switches, Routers and ASA Firewall.

I wanted to learn some scripting for cisco devices, Which will be help full in future like taking auto backup, trouble shooting...

Please suggest me which one is the best for cisco devices.

Thanks & Regards,

Srinivas. N

EEM/TCL scripting is prob

Mark Malone — Wed, 03 Feb 2016 09:59:44 GMT

EEM/TCL scripting is prob want your looking for

Kron as well can be used for backups

https://supportforums.cisco.com/community/5941/eem-scripting

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/ios-nx-os-software/ios-embedded-event-manager-eem/116176-technote-eemscripts-00.html

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios-xml/ios/cns/configuration/xe-3s/asr1000/cns-xe-3s-asr1000-book/cns-cmd-sched.html

Mmm, this has multiple angles

Philip D'Ath — Wed, 03 Feb 2016 10:02:40 GMT

Mmm, this has multiple angles. On device. Off device.

Personally I like PERL. PERL runs on a workstation or server, not on a Cisco device. It has excellent text handling and manipulation capabilities. Masses of examples on Google. Millions of add on modules available.

You can easily create scripts to log into devices, run commands, parse output, etc.