apparent bug in command script execution

If you run a command script that includes IOS CLI filters and deselect the checkbox to "show commands in output", it incorrectly displays the part of the command after the CLI filter anyway.

Example: my script is "show ntp assoc | e address|synced". Wtih "show commands in output" deselected, it still logs the "|e address|synced" to the output file.

On the feature side, it would also be really nice to be able to log all the output to a single file instead of one file per node, so I don't have to concatenate the output with post-run text processing tools.

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chris.lapoint

Have you tried running your script through the Execute Script job? I believe that the output of the job when performed across multiple devices is all stored in one file.

jswan

Yeah, that's what I did. There is a "save results to a file" checkbox, but it saves one file per node on which you run the script.

chris.lapoint

Right, sorry about that. That was actually something we changed per several other customers' requests. I'll add a feature request to allow for rolling up job results across multiple nodes to a single file.

jswan

Thanks Chris. I definitely want to be able to do it either way.

Don't forget the bug report for IOS pipe filters... :-)

chris.lapoint

On the feature side, it would also be really nice to be able to log all the output to a single file instead of one file per node, so I don't have to concatenate the output with post-run text processing tools.

jswan, in 5.5.1, if you specify a macro in the file name for job results, you'll see there is one file that shows all job results and then one file per node.

E.g. <install dir>\SolarWinds\Configuration Management\Jobs\${AgentIP}-${Date}-${Time}.txt

This will output a unique file per node based on IP and date/time job was run.

It will also create a complete summary for the job in a file called ${AgentIP}-date-time.txt.