User-Defined Telnet Macros - Extreme Networks EPICenter Guide Manual

Configuring and Monitoring Your Network

User-Defined Telnet Macros

The Telnet applet provides both a Macro Editor and a Macro Player function, in addition to allowing
interactive Telnet access to individual devices. Telnet macros can be created in either the Macro Player
or the Macro Editor. You use the Macro Editor to create and save macros that are intended to be
re-used.
In the Macro Player, you can enter a macro (or load a saved macro) and run it on a selected set of
devices, but you cannot save the macro. The Macro Player function is provided primarily to enable
macros to be run on a one-time or ad-hoc basis. You might use the Macro Player to enter a set of
commands to be run on several devices at the request of Extreme Networks' Technical Assistance
Center to help in diagnosing a configuration problem, for example.
Even though EPICenter can execute a macro concurrently on multiple devices, it still logs the responses
and results separately for each device, and displays each in their own message area them in a
tabular-style view so an administrator can easily monitor the configuration process to ensure that the
changes are implemented successfully on all devices in the set. Results can be saved either as individual
results files, or in a single file with results for all the devices in the set (useful if you need to send a set
of results from multiple devices to someone such as Extreme Networks' Technical Assistance Center for
review).
Figure 35 shows how the results from macros run on multiple devices concurrently are displayed, with
the results from each device appearing in its own row. A row can be selected to display the complete set
of results for that device, as is the case with the last device in the example.
Figure 35: Telnet macro results for multiple devices
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