Hi all,

This question is related to Cisco Catalyst6509 and AIX Server.
what i'd like to do is:
from the AIX Server, i telnet to the switch, run show command on the
switch, then output to the file, then get the file back to AIX server.
do you know how to get the AIX 5L 5.3 server talks to the
switch(Cat6509) then output all the info to the file and save this file
on AIX server ?
thanks
Tony

Tony wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This question is related to Cisco Catalyst6509 and AIX Server.
> what i'd like to do is:
> from the AIX Server, i telnet to the switch, run show command on the
> switch, then output to the file, then get the file back to AIX server.
> do you know how to get the AIX 5L 5.3 server talks to the
> switch(Cat6509) then output all the info to the file and save this file
> on AIX server ?
> thanks
> Tony

If all you want is to capture the settings on your Catalyst (In ASCII
text) then you can try this from your AIX server:

# The command below assumes that your IP address for the Catalyst 6509
is entered
# in the /etc/hosts file and assigned a name "cat6509"

telnet cat6509 | tee -a /tmp/catalyst6509.info

Simply issue your "show" commands and whatever is displayed on the
screen will also get saved to a text file called
/tmp/catalyst6509.info. Keep in mind that your login details will be
there too, and any typos you make so you may have to go back and
"pretty" it up.

Steve

Tony wrote:
> This question is related to Cisco Catalyst6509 and AIX Server.
> what i'd like to do is:
> from the AIX Server, i telnet to the switch, run show command on the
> switch, then output to the file, then get the file back to AIX server.
> do you know how to get the AIX 5L 5.3 server talks to the
> switch(Cat6509) then output all the info to the file and save this file
> on AIX server ?

Are you running CatOS or IOS?

With IOS, if you want to save the running-config or startup-config to a
server, you make sure the TFTP server is running, and then issue a "copy
running-config tftp" and answer the questions. The location where the
files are put depends on the TFTP configuration.

I don't know about CatOS.

--
Alex.

Hi Steve and Alex

your solutions work! well done!
thanks alot for your help.
to answer Alex's question, i use CatOS
cheers
Tony





Alex van Denzel wrote:

> Tony wrote:
> > This question is related to Cisco Catalyst6509 and AIX Server.
> > what i'd like to do is:
> > from the AIX Server, i telnet to the switch, run show command on the
> > switch, then output to the file, then get the file back to AIX server.
> > do you know how to get the AIX 5L 5.3 server talks to the
> > switch(Cat6509) then output all the info to the file and save this file
> > on AIX server ?
>
> Are you running CatOS or IOS?
>
> With IOS, if you want to save the running-config or startup-config to a
> server, you make sure the TFTP server is running, and then issue a "copy
> running-config tftp" and answer the questions. The location where the
> files are put depends on the TFTP configuration.
>
> I don't know about CatOS.
>
> --
> Alex.