Management tool?

[Lundah]

Speaking of management tools, does anyone know of anything out there that I could use to automate making programming changes to hundreds of 3300 ICP's? This would be on forms that either do not have SDS enabled, or just plain can't be shared. For example, if I want to change the SNMP community strings on 250 ICP's, that section of the form cannot be shared; how can I feed in a series of ICP IP addresses, the login/password information, the changes I want to make, and let a script do the work for me and tell me when it's done?

 

[slapin]

Do you familiar with Expect? OPS manager uses it for communications to ICPs. There is no any problems to create a simple script which will pool all the ICPs from the list and do predefined changes on each system.

 

[Lundah]

I've been looking at using OpsManager to run Expect scripts, but that only give me maintenance commands, I need to be able to edit fields in DB forms as well.

 

[Lundah]

Let me add that I believe this is possible through XML scripts, but my experience in XML programming is nowhere close to what it needs to be for me to even think of taking on something like this.

 

[slapin]

It should be possible to edit DB over the same interface as OPS Man. I'm just lazy to research this option

 

[Lundah]

Right, I should be able to do it through a telnet session, but I think anyone who reads this forum regularly knows that editing 3300 ICP DB forms via telnet is not a good idea.

 

[slapin]

Yes, if you don't follow the protocol. Besides that you are asking for non-standard tool or procedure, so here is the answer. Another way is to compile DB files offline and distribute them over FTP

 

[Lundah]

That would work, but SDS takes care of data that is the same everywhere. I'm talking about a way to push out a single data field change to hundreds of controllers, in a form where the rest of the data may be unique to each controller. For example, if I need to change the SNMP community string, that section of the SNMP config. form is not shareable. How can I best automate making that single data field change to 500 controllers?

 

[slapin]

Roboform? Create a script and edit your forms over web interface