Re: Config generator

I have done it in the past by using a mail merge between Microsoft Word and
Excel. You populate an Excel spreadsheet with all of the unique information
per switch (per row, hostname, ip addresses, etc) and then you write the
config template in Microsoft Word. Link the Word document with the
spreadsheet using mail merge. Everywhere in the template that refers to
unique information (hostname, ip address, etc), you populate that area with
a variable that refers to a column name in your spreadsheet (hostname, ip
address, etc). Once this is complete, you execute the merge and then you
will see your configuration template populated with unique data from the
spreadsheet for a given record (row in the spreadsheet). There will be a
selector where you can select which record (row) that you want and it will
change the variable data accordingly.

I have also done this with MS Access. You can import the spreadsheet as a
table and then write a front end that will generate the configs but it is a
little more involved.

mark wicker

On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 3:36 AM, Mykhaliuk Vladyslav <
Vladyslav.Mykhaliuk_at_snt.ua> wrote:

> Hi Team!
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> I have to create configs for hundreds of switches. Can you advise me some
> config generator to perform this task. It would be grate, if such program
> is
> free. I would be very thankful.
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> Thanks.
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>
> Vladyslav Mykhaliuk
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