Cisco::Accounting 1.01 on CPAN
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 that it has parsed and also keeps a history.
A front-end to this module is our CIPAT - Cisco IP Accounting Tool.
More information at our products page.
CIPAT 2.00 is now available
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 the IPCAD daemon.
Multiple output formats are now supported : HTML, CSV and XML.
A limitation on number of polls or time limit can be set to automatically stop CIPAT and generate reports.
Check out the product page to find out more about the new CIPAT and to see some screenshots.
Cisco::Version 0.02 available on CPAN
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
Net::Telnet::Wrapper 0.1 on CPAN
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 for many vendors like Cisco, Nortel, Packeteer but also for automating tasks like verifying POP or SMTP availability, HTTP sites, etc.
Net::Telnet::Wrapper is not a replacement for Net::Telnet but really an extension and it has some add-ons that helps you to do more with less code : automatic logon retries, different connection modes (login, enable, config), easy output handling, better error checking and much more.
Find out more here.
NetProvisioning 2.00 released
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 types and even support for any TCP port like HTTP, POP3, SMTP etc.
- better error handling
- better ‘match’ and ‘no-match’ action support
- documentation has been updated
- the XML profiles have been optimized
- support for usage of variables in profiles (ex. [enter], [date])
- new wizard to generate profiles from scratch