seeking a framework to automate router configurations

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18 Aralık 2013 Çarşamba 04:40:20 UTC+2 tarihinde Frank Cui yazdı:
> Hi Pythoners,
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> I'm looking for a tool or framework in which I can do a slight modification to achieve the following task:
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> "Asynchronously reset a large number of cisco routers back to their original configurations and push prepared initial configurations to them"
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> I did find some similar existing work such as exscript and trigger, however I was stuck in the following two problems :
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> 1. telneting to a non-default port number (other than 23)
> 2. handling of customized banner messages.
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> can you give some hints on this ?  Thanks in advance for your input.
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> Frank

Hi Frank, 

It's been a year since you asked, even so i wanted to answer. I faced the same problem and write down a telnet class to overcome such problems. I did not choose using pexpect as it does not work on windows (or really hard), and catch "hostname+line_break" to get the data everytime a command is executed on the router. You might have a look at http://www.networkhints.com/2014/12/automating-telnet-to-ciscojuniperhuawei.html if you wanted to.