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Automate Config Downloader in v9

I know v9 is relatively new, but has anyone automated config downloader yet? I have a VBscript written by Don Yonce/SolarWinds back in 2000 that worked with v8, but not v9.

We backup weekly all of our Cisco configs offsite and we used the VBscript to automate the process.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, and I can provide the script if requested.

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mobius

This script will still work all you need to do is register this file "Config-Transfer.exe" here is the command

Config-Transfer.exe /regserver

Mobius

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support

You should take a look at Cirrus 3.5-

www.solarwinds.com/.../features.aspx

chrisjones

Ahhh, now I see why the script doesn't work. Capitalism and a free market reign again.

twilkerson

I'm using version 8 can you share the script?

chrisjones

Sure, copy script below to a text file and give it a .vbs extension.

============================================

'
'   Example showing how to download many config files from many Cisco devices at one time
'
'   Version 1.0   1-5-2000           Don Yonce
'   Development@SolarWinds.Net
'
Option Explicit

    Dim TransferEngine
    Dim Transfer

    Dim TFTPRootDir
    Dim Success

    TFTPRootDir = "C:\tftp-root"   ' Root Directory of TFTP Server


    On Error Resume Next
    Err.Clear
    '
    ' Connect to the SolarWinds Config Transfer Engine
    Set TransferEngine = CreateObject("SWCiscoTransfer.Application")

    If Err <> 0 Then
        Wscript.Echo "Cannot start SolarWinds Config Transfer Engine." & vbCrLf & _
            Err.Description
    Else
   '
   ' Set the TFTP Root Directory
   TransferEngine.TFTPRootDir = TFTPRootDir

   ' Download configs from devices

    ' Format: Download, device IP, SNMP RW string, Device Name

    Download "172.16.0.1","private"       ' CORE-ROUTER
   Download "172.16.0.2","private"       ' CORE-SWITCH

   Wscript.Echo Success
    End If
    Set TransferEngine = Nothing


Sub Download(IP,Community)
    ' Create a new transfer object
    Set Transfer = TransferEngine.Transfers.NewTransfer

    ' Set IP address and Community string
    Transfer.IP = IP
    Transfer.Community = Community

    ' Download config
    If Transfer.DownloadConfig then
   Success = Success & "Success:Downloaded Config to " & Transfer.FullPathname & vbcrlf
    Else
   Success = Success & "Error :" & Transfer.LastError & vbcrlf
    End If
    Set Transfer = Nothing
End Sub

mobius

This script will still work all you need to do is register this file "Config-Transfer.exe" here is the command

Config-Transfer.exe /regserver

Mobius

chrisjones

Thanks Mobius! That did the trick.

twilkerson

Thanks Alot... Worked Great...

Bfason

There seems to be a bug in this since the version change. It uses the last tftp path used and ignores the tftprootdir variable. My example is that I have a path that I use to archive configs d:\configs and I specify this as the tftprootdir in the vbscript. I open tftp and work with some configs that I download/upload to d:\work using the tftp service. When I run the script all my configs get downloaded to d:\work.

Hope thats not too confusing.

Brian

Huh

Tried that command. It did not give any feedback. Is it suppose to?

My script still will not change the directory.

SW4141

The following is the responce that I was given by support when asking about the script no longer working.

I have submitted a request to our development team to restore the variable directory functionality of our TFTP server in a future release.

The original .vbs script provided by SolarWinds is no longer supported and has been superseded by our Cirrus Configuration Manager product. A evaluation of this product is available here:

http://www.solarwinds.net/downloads/index.aspx

Basically - because you had a functioning work around that is now a feature in application that we sell, the work around has been disabled and you must purchase the new application to get the feature that was working! SO, my comment to this is we need to watch out for any other work arounds, as they may also become Features of new products.

chris.lapoint

We have been listening to your feedback and we appreciate that many of you have made use of the script (in lieu of Cirrus availability) and it has become critical to your daily operations. We are planning on addressing the ability to specify TFTP root directory via script in the 9.1 release (this quarter), so please stay tuned! We appreciate your patience.

That said, I just want to clarify that the original .vbs script was provided as-is with no warranties to support moving forward. Our support team was correct in suggesting that Cirrus Configuration Manager is really the right product and worth considering for your automated configuration management needs...especially as your configuration management requirements expand beyond just Cisco devices and/or necessitate additional compliance steps.

Bfason

This was the same response I got after having a ticket open for 2 months. Basically it's BS, this wasn't a workaround, this was a standard function of config-transfer.exe. It was a way to programatically change the destination of the tftp server. Even now if you open config-transfer.exe which is a part of V9 and attempt to change the tftp via the supplied gui interface you get the same behavior. It will not use the directory that you put in, it will copy it to the last directory you configured the tftp server to use.

Another "undocumented feature" is now the tftp server doesn't support a mapped drive as a destination for tftp files when using Cisco Config Viewer or upload/download.

I thought the whole point to an "upgrade" was to add new functionality and feature not take away.

Is there a way I can "upgrade" to version 8?

chris.lapoint

I guess we were both working on the same post just a few minutes apart. Please see my response above. We'll try to reproduce the issues you described above. If you discover any other areas where we have inadvertently removed functionality that existed in v8, please open a support ticket so we can track and fix this in the next release.