accessing multiple devices via a script

[joelja at bogus.com (Joel jaeggli)]

On 1/15/12 09:56 , Phil Regnauld wrote:
> Abdullah Al-Malki (a.almalki1402) writes:
>> Hi fellows,
>> I am supporting a big service provider and sometimes I face this problem.
>> Sometimes I want to access my customer network and want to extract some
>> verification output "show commands" from a large number of devices.
>>
>> What kind of scripting solutions you guys are using this case.
> 
> 	Hi Abdullah,
> 
> 	rancid ?
> 
> 	http://www.shrubbery.net/rancid/

clogin from rancid features prominently in a lot of our network level
automation...

so does pdsh...

http://code.google.com/p/pdsh/

Particularly when it involves hosts.

> 	Cheers,
> 	Phil
>