Using 'ciscocmd'

Introduction

'ciscocmd' is a useful tool for remotely executing commands or querying cisco swithes. Is is briefly described here as it is useful when operating FreeNAC in a large environment.

Cisco-centric Open Source Initiative
http://sourceforge.net/projects/cosi-nms
http://cosi-nms.sourceforge.net/

This is a great tool for 'remote control' of Cisco switches. Some examples are below.

Download and extract, no compilation is needed.
These tests were done with v1.4, I installed in /opt/nac/ciscocmd-1.4.

Single switch example

Example switch is SWITCH1)
./ciscocmd -u USER -p MYPASS -t SWITCH1 -c "show vmps"
./ciscocmd -u USER -p MYPASS -t SWITCH1 -c "reconfirm vmps" -e -s MYPASS
./ciscocmd -u USER -p MYPASS -t SWITCH1 -c "ping 192.168.1.40" -e -s MYPASS

(change USER, MYPASS; and the enable password as needed..)

Several switches

# Get all CatOS switches from the FreeNAC DB (hw type 2948, store in catos.txt),
echo "select name from switch where hw like '%2948%' order by name;" | mysql opennac |egrep -v name > catos.txt

# and check their vmps status:
./ciscocmd -u USER -p MYPASS -T catos.txt -c "show vmps" | egrep "VMPS Action|VMPS Last Accessed|Last Reconfirmation|show vmps"