Advise for scripting for Cisco Devices

[Srinivas N]

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 

[Mark Malone]

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

[Philip D'Ath]

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.