okay, here we go. Note - this is as is and I take no guarantee if it does not work for you! Comments welcome.
You need: a linux box, with perl and expect installed. Maybe you need some additional perl modules.
Copy the following into a file and chmod +x:
<script>
#!/usr/bin/expect -f
#Expect Skript zum automatisierten Abziehen einer Konfig vom HP Switch
#per scp und password auth
#v 0.1 20080630 Steffen M. Steck pablofiasko@gmail.com
#
#Usage ./scpconfigsaver.exp hostname|IP
set user "manager"
set pass "managers_passwd"
set host [lindex $argv 0]
set timeout 60
set date [exec date +%Y%m%d%H%M]
set output "$host\_$date"
set dstdir /home/bkup/hpswitche
proc ssh_failed { } {
send_user "ERROR: SSH LOGIN FAILED\n"
exit
}
proc scp_ok { } {
send_user "SCP SUCCEEDED\n"
}
spawn scp $user@$host:/cfg/running-config $dstdir\/$output.cfg
#check if login is successful and import ssh key if not yet in known_hosts
expect {
"Connection refused" { ssh_failed }
"No route to host" { ssh_failed }
"Permission denied" { ssh_failed }
"bad password." { ssh_failed }
"(yes/no)?" { send "yes\r";
exp_continue }
"password:" { send "$pass\r";
exp_continue }
"Password:" { send "$pass\r";
exp_continue }
"100% " { scp_ok }
default { ssh_failed }
}
wait
expect eof
</script>
This backs up ***one*** switch. Maybe you need to play around with the last two lines "wait" and "expect eof" to get you prompt back. I have been seeing different behaviours on Suse and on Ubuntu. The above sequence works on Suse 9/10/11, it does not on Ubuntu 9.04 - you do not get your prompt back. Don't know why - comments welcome.
If you tried it successfully against a lab switch the only thing you need is all your devices' hostnames or IPs in a file, 1 per line.
Then easily use it like
steffen@T400> for i in `cat devices` ; do ./scpconfigsaver.exp $i ; done
Then have a look at what you set as dstdir, you find files named hostname_datetime.cfg.
Of course this is very basic and does not take care about how many backups are there...
Maybe someone here has time to build something around and share...
Life is what you make it
