[c-nsp] Shutting down a switch port automatically after a specific time

[Jon Lewis]

If you have rancid, you could just use a cron job + clogin to schedule 
logging into the switch and shutting the port.

On Sun, 24 Jun 2012, Arun Vijay wrote:

> Dear Alan
>
> Yes.That feature set is not available in 3550.
>
> If possible can u send a sample of the script which you are using to bring
> down the port after a certain time.
>
> Thanks
> Arun
>
> On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 8:07 PM, alan buxey <A.L.M.Buxey at lboro.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>> I would like to shutdown certain switch ports in my cisco 3550 switch
>>> automatically after a specific time.
>>> I tried configuring Time range with access list.But that only denies the
>> ip
>>> traffic to the port while the port remains UP.
>>> I need the port to be down and then get the intimation about the port
>> gone
>>> down in my syslog server through traps,which is not possible through time
>>> range as the port remains in the UP state.
>>
>> very easy with energywise....but this is 3550 so doesnt have that
>> featureset for
>> timers.... we used to just use extrenal scripts which would use SNMP to
>> UP/DOWN
>> a port at certain times
>>
>> alan
>>
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