Re: Help Please

On May 14, 10:05 am, Trendkill <jpma...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On May 14, 9:55 am, "Steve Ray" <nocha...@xxxxxxx> wrote:





Hi Guys

I'm looking for some advice please

I'm working my way through all my switches and routers on my LAN, theres
over 200+ switches and I'm trying to add a set of commands onto each one

My first issue is that I have a set of 3550's, 2900XL's, 2900-24 with all
different IOS's on them. I can cope with this

My main issue is that it is so tedious having to telnet to each switch apply
the config lines and check for CDP neighbours

Is anyone aware of any Windows app that I can point at the core and tell it
to "Go Find!" and this will then draw out my LAN with switch models and IOS
revisions

I know Cisco Works used to do this but it also costs A LOT

Heres hoping

Steve

Visio used to have a tool that would do that...but I think its
discontinued. I did read something about it being on some developers
or special edition, but never found a demo. There are tools that will
do it (Ciscoworks, Opnet, etc), but none that are free. You are
probably stuck. If you find one, be sure to post the information in
here, as I'm sure many people would greatly appreciate such a
tool...particularly those of us with large infrastructures.- Hide quoted text -

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I used to manage networks through HP Openview, where we used to run
scripts when we had more than 1 device to configure. I don't know if
you're running something similar, but I think, if you use some sort of
a system that will allow you to input scripts, you could possibly
access 1 machine through telnet, start a script, including telnets to
each additional system and have the configs added automatically.

I think you could do this even with notepad. You'd set up a script to
run the commands you want to update, then, from the 1st device
(usually a distribution device, run a telnet to the next machine, run
your commands, exit, then do the next telnet, etc

Here's an example of what it might look like:

telnet 10.1.1.1

cisco

!
en
cisco
!

conf t

int fa0/0
no shut
end
copy run start

!

telnet 10.1.1.2

cisco

en
cisco

!
conf t
int f0/0
no shut
end
copy run start

exit

telnet 10.1.1.3
cisco

en
cisco

conf t
int f0/0
no shut
end
copy run start

exit

....


Something like that might work. It's a bit clumsy and clunky, but it
should do the job. I've done it at home when I had a home lab

.

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