seeking a framework to automate router configurations

[Jean-Michel Pichavant]

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> Hi Pythoners,

> I'm looking for a tool or framework in which I can do a slight
> modification to achieve the following task:

> "Asynchronously reset a large number of cisco routers back to their
> original configurations and push prepared initial configurations to
> them"

> I did find some similar existing work such as exscript and trigger,
> however I was stuck in the following two problems :

> 1. telneting to a non-default port number (other than 23)
> 2. handling of customized banner messages.

> can you give some hints on this ? Thanks in advance for your input.

> Frank

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Hi, 

If you can ssh on your routers, you may want to look at fabric, a python module that do ssh stuff. You only need to figure out how to reset and reconfigure the router from the shell prompt. 

JM 


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