Create a report to show the contents of Arista flash

jasonww

I'm simply looking for a way to log into Arista switches and capture the output of the dir command. I tried editing the existing Cisco Flash File System report but I can't figure out how the report actually grabs the contents of flash. Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,

Jason

cnorborg

You can do it in SWQL, which means it could be put into a report, or a resource window, or even be used in the API...

Let's say you have a job that you run in Arista's where it's simply "dir" and nothing else.  This SWQL

SELECT NT.NodeProperties.Nodes.IPAddress, NT.NodeProperties.Nodes.SysName, NT.NodeProperties.Nodes.MachineType, NT.DeviceOutput, NT.RequestedScript

FROM NCM.TransferResults NT

WHERE (RequestedScript LIKE 'dir') and (NT.ErrorMessage IS NULL)

Will give you a brief summary of all the nodes it was executed on and the results.   If its in SWQL studio or something similar it might not look that good, but I'm guessing if you stick it in a report it will look better.

Get rid of the "WHERE" line if you want to see more raw output. 

Note that this is looking at the "Transfer Results" of all jobs, which includes things like commands you executed, config remediation, config downloads, etc...   If you go into "Config Management" and "Transfer Status" and "CLEAR ALL", it will clear out any existing results you have, and thus make this report blank.  But its nice if you did it one day, and wanted fresh info the next.  By clearing out the old output all you get is fresh output...