I am trying to write a expect script to telnet and run a command on a remote host.The command i want to send contains a text value is contained in file.txt in the linux box from where i am running the expect script.I want to pass the contains of file.txt into a variable and call the same variable in the command i want to send to the remote host.
Please help i am unable to do soo..
Last edited by Scott; 12-15-2009 at 02:59 PM..
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Somewhat long story:
I have a simple Perl CGI script that uses Expect to Telnet to a device and grab some data, and then spits it back to Perl for display on the Webpage.
This works for many devices I've tried, but one device just fails, it keeps rejecting the password on this device, only... (1 Reply)
So here is what I am trying to do. I have a large # of switches and routers I am trying to log into. Unfortunately some have ssh only, some have telnet only. and some i have never logged into with ssh. I first want it to SSH, if i have never logged into the box it will ask for adding the ssh key. I... (0 Replies)
I must automatically monitor and manage a large number of boxes on our network.
I have been using perl/Net::Telnet and expect/telnet and also perl/ssh and expect/ssh to reach the command line of the remote boxes. Scripts are working but slow.
(Yes, I do use SNMP also but many boxes do not... (2 Replies)
Hi all,
I have written a small expect script which should spawn a telnet session login and execute some commands.
#!/usr/bin/expect -f
spawn telnet $env(IP)
match_max 100000
expect "login:"
send -- "******\n"
expect -exact "Password:"
send -- "****\n"
expect "%"
Now I have got... (2 Replies)
Hello
I'm working using expect to automate telnet commands...i want to check if telnet fails and in this case...certain message should appear or certain word should be out in a file).
Thses are the messages that apeear if telnet fails:
Trying 172.16.3.115...
telnet: Unable to connect... (0 Replies)
Hi all,
I am currently running a daemon which creates a virtual terminal for testing purposes. Essentially, if I were to interact with it manually, this is what I get.
john@test1:~$telnet localhost 7777
Trying ::1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'
mip6d> pl
eth2... (6 Replies)
I've got some expect/tcl scripts.
Now i want to add a function that allows to open a telnet connection and redirect the output to a logfile.
On the shell/terminal i tried something like:
'telnet 192.168.123.123 12121 > /home/user/logging/log-telnet.log'
and the telnet is redirected into the... (2 Replies)
At times I find the need to test that the tacacs port 49 is open.
The code below works but is painfully slow because I have to wait on the timeouts.
Examples of possible responds
router1#telnet 10.11.20.14 49
Trying 206.112.204.140, 49 ... Open
route1#telnet 10.11.19.14 49
Trying... (1 Reply)
Dear experts, please help me .
I've found simple EXPECT scripts and all works fine. But I need more automation in error handling and sending list of commands/output logging from multiple remote hosts.
I have 10 hosts, for example:
host1 192.168.1.1 LOGIN1 PASSWORD1
...... ... (2 Replies)
Hi All,
I have an Expect script which logs into Cisco switch, performs a show interface command. I want to read a file of ip addresses which will be passed to the expect script.
The script to read the file works, the expect script works on it's own but when i call the 'expect' script from the... (12 Replies)
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purple-send - calls purple API functions using DBus and prints the return value.
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purple-send method-name [type1:value1] [type2:value2] ...
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