Copy to running without confirmation

[mbarbero]

Anyone know it there is a way to run this command: copy test.txt running-config

without have to confirm after that the destination file is realy the running-config?

I'm needing this why?

I need to schedule a shut, no shut in voice-ports.

The way I found to do this is:

Create the flash:test.txt file with:

voice-port 1/0

sh

no sh

voice-port 0/0

sh

no sh

Create a kron schedule as:

kron policy-list DROPCALL

cli copy test.txt running-config

kron occurrence DROP at 19:57 oneshot

policy-list DROPCALL

END

The problem is that the copy command need a confirmation, so it doesn't work.

If there is a way to disable the confirmation it should works.

Or, someone knows how to accomplish that in another way?

regards

[vashdevt]

Hi,

you can use the TERA TERM

http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002416/ttermp23.zip and make script like

connect '10.0.0.1'

;wait for password prompt

wait 'Password: '

sendln 'mypassword'

wait '>'

sendln 'enable'

wait 'Password: '

sendln 'mypassword'

wait 'myrouter#'

sendln 'copy running-config tftp:'

wait '[]?'

sendln 'Tftp-ip-address'

wait ']?'

sendln 'config.txt'

wait 'myrouter#'

Sendln 'exit'

Vash

[mbarbero]

This should work but I need an external machine to do that.

My objective is schedule the router itself to do that.

Anyone know how to do that?

[jphilope]

Would the 'KRON' command for your respective IOS version be something helpful? Do a search at the home page for "KRON" or "IOS Command Scheduler".

Let us know if it helped.

[scottmac]

Depending on your IOS version, I believe you can do this with tcl (tool control language, frequently distributed as tcl/tk).

I think I've read that tcl is enabled on the more recent IOS versions. By using tcl, you are running it as a background process, not from the prompt as other scripting would do.

Here's a list of links from the main Cisco site:

http://www.cisco.com/pcgi-bin/search/search.pl?searchPhrase=tcl&x=0&y=0&nv=Search+All+cisco.com%23%23cisco.com&nv=Technical+Support+%26+documentation%23%23cisco.com%23TSD&language=en&country=US&accessLevel=Guest&siteToSearch=cisco.com

If it is available, there are a bunch of learning/"how to" books available. Copying a file should be fairly trivial and shouldn't load the router CPU too much.

Good Luck

Scott

[bover]

I'm glad someone else has asked this question. I'm trying to set up a kron job that will ftp a copy of a running-config up to an FTP server on a nightly basis but it keeps failing out due to the prompt on the copy command.

Is there any setting or flag I can use on the cli command to remove the prompt for name of remote host and destination filename?

[guibarati]

to do that you have to issue the command:

router(config)#file prompt quiet

So the router will not ask for confirmation on any flash file system operation.

[bover]

That worked! Thank you very much. I searched CCO for days looking for a solution. I love these forums. :)

[bkennedy90]

Thank you very much!  This worked for me as well when trying to create new file directories with an automated tool.

[sjaiswal]

Hi,
This works for IOS device but this doesn't work for IOS-XR devices, can you please let me know if similar kind of command is available in IOS-XR device to achieve the use case where I am trying to `copy running-config` in a file.

Thanks

[shellhammer]

I'm having a similar issue using KRON.

I have been trying to use:

write network tftp://

write does not require a prompt, but 12.2(25r)SEC is forcing the change back to copy. Is write going away??