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Delay for Config Change Templates

I've searched around here but have not been able to find a way to do a "delay" when creating a Config Change Template.

I've tried the following...

{
  string @PipeSymbol='|'
  string @PausePlease='${Delay:5}'
  // Enter configuration mode
  CLI 
  {
   configure terminal
  }

  // Loop through selected ports
  foreach (@portItem in @TargetPorts)
  {
CLI
{
interface @portItem.InterfaceDescription
shut
@PausePlease
no shut
end
@PausePlease
sh ip int brief @PipeSymbol incl @portItem.InterfaceDescription
}
  }

}

as well as a few other variants but either the delay is ignored, invalid when Validating or comes up with an error.

Has anyone figured out how to delay scripts during a run in Config Change Templates and have it work? I'm going to continue hacking at it but if someone's figured it out, I would love to know.

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Accepted answers

sja

Hi you can use ${Delay:X}

https://documentation.solarwinds.com/en/Success_Center/NCM/Content/NCM-Understanding-NCM-Macros.htm

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sja

Hi you can use ${Delay:X}

https://documentation.solarwinds.com/en/Success_Center/NCM/Content/NCM-Understanding-NCM-Macros.htm

kingdwight

Hi @sja,

Thank you for the reply. I tried deleting the post as I found the answer very shortly thereafter. I was using the ${Delay:x} macro in the script above. My issue turned out to be my wait periods were not long enough for me to notice that the Delay worked. So here is what I did to fix my problem in case others need to do the same.

script ShutNoShutPorts (    
                        NCM.Nodes @ContextNode, 
                        NCM.Interfaces[] @TargetPorts 
						)

{
  // DEFINE THE PIPE SYMBOL FOR LATER USE AS THE PIPE SYMBOL ADDED DIRECTLY IN THE SCRIPT WON'T WORK
  string @PipeSymbol='|'

  // DEFINE 2 PAUSES. ONE FOR 2 SECONDS AND ONE FOR 20 SECONDS TO ALLOW FOR THE SCRIPT TIME TO DO IT'S THING.
  string @PausePlease2='${Delay:2}'
  string @PausePlease20='${Delay:20}'

  // Enter configuration mode
  CLI 
  {
   configure terminal
  }

  // Loop through selected ports
  foreach (@portItem in @TargetPorts)
  {
CLI
{
interface @portItem.InterfaceDescription
shut
@PausePlease2
no shut
end
@PausePlease20
!
!
sh ip int brief @PipeSymbol incl @portItem.InterfaceDescription
}
  }

}

Hope this helps and thank you once again for your input @sja! Much appreciated!