scripting with cli via vb or batch jobs

[abknoc]

can i use vb scripts or bat files to execute cli commands on 6509 catos 7.6?

any useful links or scripts?

[brianj]

I use a perl module called Net::Telnet::Cisco. This module will allow you to issue any command to a cisco device. Simply type the appropriate command based on OS and it will work.

I use this to manage our network consisting of 90 Cisco devices. I used perl to write a web based front-end which allows me to choose a list of devices that I then type, into a textarea, the command(s) I want to issue.

You can also use snmp. I do have some shell scripts that I use snmp to do things like copy start tftp, copy tftp start, and things like that. The snmp utilities are the standard like snmpwalk, snmpget, snmpgetnext etc...

HTH,

Brian

[renato.guimaraes]

Brian,

I'm in a similar situation where I have to manage a lot of Cisco devices (UC500s in particular). Can you give a sample of your code? I'm not too familiar with perl and just got it installed along with the net::telnet::cisco module.

Thanks