Re: non-gui tool for parsing/generating cisco configs

[Joe Shaw <jshaw () insync net>]

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