automation of cisco commands

[lcarbajalparedes]

Hello,

Is there  way how to automatize cisco commands for maintenance like " clear conn " " sh ip interface brief" from a batch or tool?

Regards

[Joe Clarke]

Sure.  That's what the Embedded Event Manager is for.  With EEM.  For example, to email you the output of "show ip int brie" every day:

event manager applet email-intfs
 event timer cron cron-entry "0 8 * * *"
 action 1.0 cli command "show ip int brief"
 action 2.0 mail from user@example.com from user@example.com subject "Show IP Interface Brief" body "$_cli_result" server 10.1.1.1

More on EEM can be found at http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/netmgmt/configuration/guide/nm_eem_overview.html .

[lcarbajalparedes]

Hello thank you for your response., but i would like to know if there is another tool differente from cisco for this kind of scheduel jobs.

Regards,

[Joe Clarke]

There are a lot of network management tools that can automate running CLI commands.  What a lot of users do is roll the Expect scripting language into their own tools.  Expect is very flexible and will work across vendors.

http://expect.sourceforge.net/

[lcarbajalparedes]

hello, thank you for your comments, is there a tool similiar to catools maybe?

Regards,

[Joe Clarke]

If you mean Kiwi CatTools, those will work with Cisco devices.  If you're looking for free packages to do command scheduling, there is Nagios for general network monitoring and Rancid (http://www.shrubbery.net/rancid/) that can do automatic configuration backup and archive.  On the Cisco commercial side, Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution offers both configuration management and schedulable batch command execution.