Re: script to log into cisco csm load balancer

From: Edouard Zorrilla (ezorrilla@tsf.com.pe)
Date: Fri Jan 23 2009 - 11:14:51 ARST


Antonie,

May I use the same for the ACE ?

Regards

----- Original Message -----
From: "Antonie Henning - MWEB" <AHenning@mweb.com>
To: "shiran guez" <shiranp3@gmail.com>; "Tyson Scott" <tscott@ipexpert.com>
Cc: "testing testing123" <testing3.141@gmail.com>; <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 8:05 AM
Subject: RE: script to log into cisco csm load balancer

>I would say if you had to ask, use autoexpect to build the script for
> you. You don't need any programming skills to use autoexpect. It is
> similar to the macro record feature in excel. Then, once you are happy
> autoexpect made a script that is working for you, clean the script, as
> autoexpect is a bit messy. When you run the script you will then have
> raw output, which you will have to parse and output to a file that you
> will graph (e.g ./script.exp > csm.out). I would suggest mrtg for that
> but since you want to use excel, I would output the parsed data into a
> csv file which you can open in excel.
>
> However cisco have a mib for the csm, all this can be done with one
> liner by pulling the info via snmp:
> snmpwalk -v1 -c private 10.10.10.10
> CISCO-SLB-MIB::slbVirtualNumberOfConnections.9 | sed 's/"/ /g' | awk
> '{print $2, $5}'
>
> Change private to your snmp community, change the ip address to your
> loadbalancers address and .9 to the module number where the csm is
> installed in. You can send the output to a csv file by adding > csm.csv
> at the end and opening the file in excel. Again mrtg would be easier,
> but if you have to do it in excel you would have to make another similar
> line to prepend the new values every 30 minutes.
>
> HTH
> 21500.org
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> shiran guez
> Sent: 22 January 2009 06:02 PM
> To: Tyson Scott
> Cc: testing testing123; ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: Re: script to log into cisco csm load balancer
>
> I use python as it is more flexible then expect and much easy syntax
> then
> perl here is an real small exmple but you can actually do what you
> described
> you need in not much more code lines:
>
> ============================================================
> #!/usr/bin/python
>
> import getpass
> import sys
> import telnetlib
>
> HOST = raw_input("Enter your remote address: ")
> user = "user"
> password = "pass"
> enable = "enapass"
> tn = telnetlib.Telnet(HOST)
> tn.read_until("Username: ")
> tn.write(user + "\n")
> if password:
> tn.read_until("Password: ")
> tn.write(password + "\n")
> tn.write("enable\n")
> if password:
> tn.read_until("Password: ")
> tn.write(enable + "\n")
> tn.write("show ip int b | ex una\n")
> tn.write("exit\n")
> print tn.read_all()
>
> ========================================================
>
>
> Good luck
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 1:02 AM, Tyson Scott <tscott@ipexpert.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Perl or Expect will provide you the greatest functionality and
>> customization
>> in my opinion. Perl has a lot more examples that you can easily
> obtain off
>> of the internet. Expect is a great tool for network admins.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Tyson Scott - CCIE #13513 R&S and Security
>> Technical Instructor - IPexpert, Inc.
>>
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>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf
> Of
>> testing testing123
>> Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 5:27 PM
>> To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
>> Subject: script to log into cisco csm load balancer
>>
>> What language should I use to write a script to log into my cisco csm
>> load balancer and check the usage ? The place I work for doesn't have
>> any industry tools like HP Openview, CIscoworks, solarwinds, or
>> anything like that. I want it to log into the csm once every half
>> hour and check the connections of the serverfarms and export it to a
>> spreadsheet that will automatically graph that data.
>>
>> thanks
>>
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