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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Perl telnet to router run commands from file Post 302873705 by Chubler_XL on Tuesday 12th of November 2013 09:18:54 PM
Old 11-12-2013
Nice work, I've seen many posts here asking for something similar so I know others will find this useful.

The 600 sec timeout is a little long - do you encounter issues with some commands taking a long time to finish? I'd try reduce it to give feedback to users quicker, you can extend it again for the command processing part if needed.

Could be useful putting or die tests on all your waitfor() calls to assist debugging if router/prompts are wrong eg:

Code:
$t->waitfor('/Telnet password[: ]*/i') or die "No router pass prompt";

When doing these type of things I like to change the PS1 prompt to something more unique to ensure we are matching on the command prompt eg:

Code:
$t->print("PS1=READY#  \n");
$t->waitfor('/READY#$/') or die "No command prompt";

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control_rancid

control_rancid(1)					      General Commands Manual						 control_rancid(1)

NAME

       control_rancid - run rancid for devices of a group

SYNOPSIS

       control_rancid [-V] [-m mail_rcpt] [-r device_name] group

DESCRIPTION

       control_rancid  is  a  sh(1) script to parse a group's router.db(5), run rancid for each of the devices, possibly re-run rancid for devices
       that failed collection, e-mail diffs, and e-mail error reports.

       The command-line options are as follows:

       -V     Prints package name and version strings.

       -m mail_rcpt
	      Specify the recipient of diff mail, which is normally rancid-<group>.   The  argument  may  be  a  single  address,  multiple  comma
	      separated addresses, or -m may be specified multiple times.

       -r device_name
	      Specify  the  name,  as  it  appears in the router.db, of a particular device to collect and generate diffs for.	The device must be
	      marked "up".

	      The -r option alters the subject line of the diff mail.  It will begin with <group name>/<device name> rather than  just	the  group
	      name alone.

       control_rancid  is  normally (and best) run via rancid-run(1) which provides a locking mechanism on a group basis and saves output in a log
       file for each group.

SEE ALSO

       rancid-run(1), rancid.conf(5), router.db(5)

								  5 October 2006						 control_rancid(1)
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