http://www.2nms.com/blog Automating IT ! Fri, 21 Mar 2008 21:46:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en # add first and penultimate columns perl -lane 'print $F[0] + $F[-2]' # just lines 15 to 17 perl -ne 'print if 15 .. 17' *.pod # in-place edit of *.c files changing all foo to bar ... http://www.2nms.com/blog/?p=35 Perl "One Liners" are -surprise surprise- little perl programs written on one line. Here are a few simple examples : Guess what this one does :-) $ perl -e 'print "Hello";' -e 'print " World\n"' DOS to Unix text convert $ perl -i -pe 's/\r//g' file Unix to DOS text convert $ perl -i -pe 's/\n/\r\n/' ... http://www.2nms.com/blog/?p=34 Here's a great tutorial on how you could manage your ip network for free! All you need is a Linux box (surprise surprise) and of course an ip network. The tutorial discusses some popular tools and scripts to perform these tasks : Configuration change measurement: storing the configuration history of ... http://www.2nms.com/blog/?p=32 Also our perl module Cisco::Accounting is now available on CPAN. This module parses and aggregates IP Accounting information from remote Cisco devices or from remote hosts running the IPCAD daemon. Several other actions are possible like checking and changing the accounting setting on interfaces, clear ip accounting, etc. The module summarizes all data ... http://www.2nms.com/blog/?p=31 A new version of CIPAT is available for download. CIPAT is Cisco IP Accounting Tool which is a front-end for the Cisco::Accounting perl module. CIPAT is still a platform independent perl based tool but it has many new features like support for Cisco devices as well as hosts which are running ... http://www.2nms.com/blog/?p=30 Our new Perl module Cisco::Version is also available on CPAN. This module extracts as much data as possible from Cisco's 'show version' command. Many chassis types are support. The following details can be extracted : software version information bootstrap information bootloader information uptime reload reason reload time software image file DRAM memory information flash information configuration registry password recovery mechanism Read more ... http://www.2nms.com/blog/?p=28 Our first 'official' Perl module has been published on CPAN : Net::Telnet::Wrapper. This module is a wrapper around the existing modules Net::Telnet and Net::Telnet::Cisco, also available on CPAN, and it will help you to automate all your jobs that involve connecting to TCP ports (telnet, POP, HTTP, etc). There's built-in support ... http://www.2nms.com/blog/?p=27 A new version of NetProvsioning has been released. A separate project has been created on SourceForge where you can find the downloads and more documentation. What has changed : code has been optimized and separated into modules multithreading code is more stable device support is now handled by Net::Telnet::Wrapper which handles many device ... http://www.2nms.com/blog/?p=26 As of today our new website is live! Yes, there is still some work to do : the products page has to be completed, screenshots added, template customized, but hey .. it's a start. With this new blog-style website we hope that we can frequently post ... http://www.2nms.com/blog/?p=25