[c-nsp] OT: Linux Script for router management

[bill fumerola]

On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 12:08:04PM -0400, Eric Van Tol wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > I'm facing a problem with routers management, near of 80 dispersed
> > routers
> > of differents providers with differents usr/pass , I would like to
> > have a
> > linux console with a Menu with router list, then when a choose a
> > option, I
> > can get into the router automatically, or maybe other way, for
> > example
> > before I used a Linux console where I write down the hostname and I
> > get the
> > router. Do you know some tool/script that can do it?
> >
> 
> You should be able to use RANCID (http://www.shrubbery.net/rancid) in combination with an MOTD banner on your server that lists all the routers and an alias to get access to each one.  You get the added benefit of backing up configs of all the routers, too.

as for the menu:
sh/dialog: http://invisible-island.net/dialog/
C: http://www.troubleshooters.com/lpm/200405/200405.htm#_A_Simple_Menu
Perl: http://backpan.cpan.org/authors/id/C/CC/CCOLLINS/Curses-Menu-1.00.readme
TCL: http://wiki.tcl.tk/12953
PHP: http://devzone.zend.com/article/1083-Using-Ncurses-in-PHP
Python: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-python6.html

choose your poison.

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- bill fumerola / billf at FreeBSD.org