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I mentioned earlier today a script I am quite happy with that retrieves configurations from Foundry Networks equipment we have installed. I have a different script that manages the archived configurations so only the latest configurations are available in an uncompressed format. All other configurations are contained in nightly “snapshot” zip files. It’s pretty cool over all, except I need to figure out how to do this on the NetWare 5.1 servers I also archive these network configurations onto. NetWare 5.1 does not have a shell and I’m not sure how robust its Perl support is. A server I looked at has a Perl 5.8.0 NLM on it, so, maybe this will work?
As always, if you have any suggestions on an efficient way to do this, I’m all ears!
I wrote a nice perl script that logs in to each of my switches and backs up it’s configuration. I’m very proud of this little script. Now, it’s time to update it to use SSH instead of the insecure telnet. Does anyone have any comments about pitfalls to avoid or tips or tricks to make it easier?
