[rancid] Re: HP Procurve (hlogin): interaction in configure mode: possible?

[john heasley]

Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 07:25:49PM +0100, Emmanuel Halbwachs:
> Hi Everybody,
> 
> I'm a newbie on this list.
> 
> I'm happily using rancid (2.3.1, the one in Debian stable etch) for
> several monthes, but till now only for pushing/retrieving some info
> with {c,h}login. I plan to use version control for config later.
> 
> My point:
> 
> I am trying to change some config parameters in ~50 HP Procurve with
> some commands like this:
> 
>   $ hlogin -v foo -e bar -c "conf t; foobar; wr mem" $switch

two things; 1) your string of commands would leave cli in configuration mode,
and hlogin would run "exit;exit" then leaving it at the un-enabled cli.  you
need
	-c "conf t; foo; exit"
2) it appears that hlogin has difficulty with the prompt changing.  A change
was applied to clogin to make this work, but apparently not applied to hlogin.
you should be able to work-around it using the -x method.

> The output then hangs after the "conf t" command:
> 
>   switch> enable
>   Password:
>   switch#
>   switch# no page
>   switch#  conf t
> 
>   -> hang :-(
> 
> 
> When using hlogin without entering in configure mode, everything works
> just fine.
> 
> I tried to massage the -c command with "\n" without any results. 
> 
> I understand that dealing with the HP CLI seems to be a PIA (thus
> hpuifilter), but is there a way to enter some commands in configure
> mode?
> 
> TIA for any hint,
> 
> -- 
> Emmanuel Halbwachs
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