[30263] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: non-gui tool for parsing/generating cisco configs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Shaw)
Sat Jul 22 13:49:08 2000
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 12:46:57 -0500 (CDT)
From: Joe Shaw <jshaw@insync.net>
To: Eric Hall <nanog@darkart.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Eric Hall wrote:
> I'm looking for a non-gui tool (or tools) for
> parsing and generating configs for cisco switches and
> routers that can be run from another process on unix systems.
> The configs I'll have are pretty simple, minimal routing,
> some port-specific commands, and basic host info.
I knocked something like this out for a company I worked for a while back,
but I don't think they want to release the code. However, I could write a
script that did something similar in a relatively short amount of time,
given the criteria you're checking for. The script parsed a cisco config
for gloabal services turned off/on (ip finger, tcp-small-servers),
required interface commands, BGP/OSP router setups, and a few other
things, kind of like a lint for Cisco. Writing a multi-purpose beast to
handle just any generic cisco config you throw at it would probably be a
pain, which is probably why it hasn't been done yet, outside of the
limited tools from Cisco.
> I've searched around the web and dug through the nanog
> archives (mostly to find there are few things, none of which
> match my current needs, and lots of people saying they
> need what I'm asking for and more).
>
> If anybody has pointers for the above, they're much
> appreciated.
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Joseph Shaw
