We are currently running Nortekl 8600s 5.1 with VRFs implemented. I have a few questions in regards to the SNMP configurations in regards to VRFs. I was hoping you might have an idea or two.

I am wanting to configure different SNMP communities for the different VRFs.

1st I have noticed, I can not view the existing snmp community names, they’re all “asterixes” out. How can I view the current snmp communities ?

2nd Is it possible to assign different SNMP communities for different VRFs.

The thing is : I can only see what SNMP config. for the whole 8600, and not for the different VRFs.

I have gone over various Nortel docs, but they really only refer to SNMPv3.

Any advice would be most welcome.

Thank you

Kind Regards

Ryan

IanNorm :
I know Brett as well – I worked at Nortel for 10 years working on management solutions for MSS (aka Passport) 6K, 7K, 15K switches. If anyone ever needs any help with MDM give me a shout! So, yes, I’ve been using CLImanager extensively for many years – batch files, CLI*Script files, Java plugins, etc. If anyone needs any help with CLImanager let me know.

Hi IanNorm,
Could you please share me some script or document of CLIManager?
I would like to catch the result from a command but I don’t know how to do that.

my mail: ngocvinh1906@yahoo.com

Thanks and regards,
Nvinh

I’m using CLImanager and trying to write a script to login to UNIX machine. I’ve input the username/passwd via script but not lucky.

cmd (“telnet 10.10.10.10″);

waitfor(“login: “)
send(“test”);
waitfor(“Password: “)
send(“test”);

The CLImanager hangs at the login prompt and does nothing.
Please let me know who can I use this way to connect to my machine.

Thanks and Regards,
Nvinh

You’ve stumbled onto a gem with CLImanager. When we had Nortel Passport 6480/7480 ATM switches we used CLImanager to help manage them. I haven’t used CLImanager recently but it could certainly accomplished the task (I’m not sure how many switches it could configure at once). I’ve personally just become accustom to writing Expect scripts on a CentOS Linux server. For anyone that’s not familiar with Except, then CLImanager might be a nice alternative. You actually don’t need to even script anything. CLImanager will literally login to multiple switches at one time, you issue a single command and it will pass that command on to every switch that you are logged into, pretty neat stuff. I know the author of CLImanager, Brett Sinclair, and he’s a very sharp fellow.

Cheers!

Let me know if you need any more info.

Ian

Here’s an Expect script that will configure the Daylight Saving Time on the Nortel 460,470,2500,4500,5500,5600 switches. You can easily adopt this script to reset the SNMP community strings as oppose to reconfiguring the date/time.

Expect Script: set-nortel-timezone.exp.txt

Bash Script that calls Expect script: set-nortel-timezone.sh.txt.

You can read more about it in this post; http://blog.michaelfmcnamara.com/2008/07/expect-script-daylight-saving-time.

Cheers!

Regards,

I’ve written a few Expect scripts that essentially telnet into the switches and then issue the appropriate CLI commands.

If you are familiar with Linux I could provide you a few examples.

Cheers!