[rrd-users] Re: Need a script to access switch

[Chan Chi Hung]

I think "Expect" is the tool you are looking for.  Expect home page 
(http://expect.nist.gov/) mentioned this:
"Expect is a tool for automating interactive applications such as 
telnet, ftp, passwd, fsck, rlogin, tip, etc ..."

Expect is developed on top of Tcl (http://www.tcl.tk/) and RRDtool has 
Tcl blinding. So, you can automate your telnet and rrd graphing all in Tcl.


Expect is

PAUL WILLIAMSON wrote:
> Have you tried to script it using "expect" and shell?
> 
> Paul
> 
> 
>>>>"shrikumar sukhthankar" <shrikumar.sukhthankar at gmail.com> 01/09/06
> 
> 7:55 PM >>>
> Hi RRD-users
> I have to extract data from a Switch and monitor the traffic going
> through
> it using rrd.
> I want to access the switch from the command line or using a unix
> sxript.Iam not able to access the switch directly from unix as i have
> to use telnet
> and enter a username and passwd .How can i pass the usernmame and
> passwd
> using a unix script.
> 
> Please help me out using this
> 
> Regards
> Shrikumar Sukhthankar
> 
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rename proc //
// t: n {regexp {^6\d{7,7}$} $n}; // f: n [info body t:]
// m: n {regexp {^9\d{7,7}$} $n}; // e: e {regexp {^[^@]+@[^@]+$} $e}
// a: args {string length $args}; // c: args [info body a:]; if {


[c: managed computing competency centre]                 &&
[a: ntu, mae, blk n3 #01c-10, 50 nanyang ave, s(639798)] &&
[t: 67904420]                                            &&
[f: 63160042]                                            &&
[m: 97317462]                                            &&
[e: chihung at mc-3.org]


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