Hi monks,
I am writing a script to telnet into a cisco switch and run mutiple commands e.g sh top,sh traffic etc.
My question is how do i use one object referenc to run multiple commands.
I want the flexibility of reading the commands from a config file.
here is what i have got so far.
$cs is the net::telnet object reference 
# Execute the command

open( FI ,"< $ciscomm_conf") || die ("Cannot find configuration file c
+ontaing commands to be run at $ciscomm_conf:$!");
while(<FI>)
 {
   my $ciscommand = $_;
   if(( $ciscommand !~ m/\#/ ) && ($ciscommand !~ m/^\s+$/))
     {
        @cmd_output = $cs->cmd( String => $ciscommand,Timeout =>60);
        if (!@cmd_output)
           {
             push(@cmd_output,"  command failed or returned null input
+\n");
           }
     }
 }
cose FI;

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I even tried reading the file in an array and doing a 
foreach $tmp (@cms)
 {
      @cmd_output = $cs->cmd( String => $ciscommand,Timeout =>60);
}

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unfortunately in both cases the @cmd_output array is empty.
If i run only one command without a "while" or "for" the same code works.
Any suggestions
Regards <chimni>

In reply to Net::Telnet::Cisco usage by chimni

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