Hello all. I've cobbled together a script (using expect) that to put configs from our switches and routers up on a tftp server. The script works fine, but I'd like to make it more extendable. Unfortunately I'm still at about the hello world scripting stage...
The script ssh's into a device into a server and sends the backup config to a tftp server. Right now it works for switches, but I'd like to re-use the script for multiple device types (IE a switch, router, and anything else I need it for). I'd also like to add some sort of error checking and loging/reporting.
The variables are fairly self explanatory. type is the device type (switch, router, etc), and path is the path on the tftp server (unused). My idea with the type variable is to choose the expect script based on the device type. I've never used expect before and am not sure if all code could be in one script, or if I would need 2 scripts.
For example:
Right now I have just 2 devices and the syntax goes
<code>/usr/bin/expect [username] [password] [device_hostname] [switch/router] [path_on_tftp_server] </code>
Here's what I have that works for the switches. I really just need to know how to use the $type variable to switch the expect script to run the correct info and would love to see better use of it.
I'm fairly new to scripting so this might not be possible.
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Hi,
Am very new to expect scripting..
Can You please suggest me how to call an expect script inside another expect script..
I tried with
spawn /usr/bin/ksh
send "expect main.exp\r"
expect $root_prompt
and
spawn /usr/bin/ksh
send "main.exp\r"
expect $root_prompt
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Hi,
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