Advanced scripting

Hi,

I'm attempting to schedule a command script to run on a cisco device (its a 'show' command). I managed to configure the job so it runs repeatedly. but I need the job to log to a single file and append each repeated task to the bottom of the log file.

Currently what happens is that each time the job repeats it overwrites the existing logfile which is useless. As a work around I have it emailing me each time it completes a task this is a very messy work around.

At the moment I can see 2 possible solutions.

1. find a command to append the job log each time a sh command task is run instead of overwriting the log file

2. Find a way to create a single job using a 'Delay' command within the script to repeat the tasks and hope that the results will be automatically appended to a single log file.

cheers

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DGoodale

It sounds like you need a terminal emulator with good macro or scripting functions. The last time I needed to gather info from many switches I used Tera Term Pro and wrote a script that had it log in to each switch, download the mac-address table and append it to a file. Tera Term Pro only supports telnet but I was lucky because we were still using telnet at the time.

Dan Goodale - Network Engineer II, Triwest Healthcare

michaelh1

Just a thought, but when configuring the script that runs, under notifications you can choose both to log the job, as well as record to a file. When you chose to record to a file, I believe you can use the various global variables for date, time, ip hostname, whatever you'd like to make sure each device is written to a different file. You could then run one separate batch file outside of NCM that could properly concatenate those separate files into whatever you need.