04-10-2007 05:43 AM
we have over 70 remote sites that have 871 routers w/ nearly identical configs on them. i am looking for a tool to update multiple routers with some form of ease. is there currently any tools available to do this. I could see using .bat files to do this but was wondering if there is anything cisco uses for this
04-10-2007 07:25 AM
Cisco's CiscoWorks LAN Management Solution (LMS) includes NetConfig - a part of Resource Manager Essentials (aka RME) - which allows you to make configuration changes to one or more devices. For more information about CiscoWorks LMS see http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/cscowork/ps2425/index.html.
Alternatively, you can use perl (http://www.perl.org) and the excellent Net::Telnet::Cisco module (http://search.cpan.org/~joshua/Net-Telnet-Cisco-1.10/Cisco.pm) to write a script which telnets into a bunch of Cisco devices and implements your changes for you.
We use both CiscoWorks LMS and perl scripting - using the former for smaller jobs and the latter for large scale configuration changes and roll-outs.
04-10-2007 07:28 AM
thanks, that will work but i am really looking for something for windows, just in case someone else at our business needs to use it that doesnt know linux
04-10-2007 07:38 AM
Cisco Works LMS runs on both the Solaris and Windows platforms.
There are perl packages available for Windows including ActivePerl from ActiveState - see http://www.activestate.com.
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