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Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold User Guide
4 After entering the user name and password (if necessary), if @enable detects
CommandPrompt, it assumes that enable was successful. Otherwise, it assumes that
enable failed.
If at any time the device's output stalls for more than Settings.ReadTimeout seconds, it is
assumed that something is wrong, and the script returns failure.
Device commands
After invoking the @login command (and possibly @enable as well), most scripts contain a
sequence of Device commands that are sent to the device for execution. A typical Device
command is shown below:
Device commands are executed as follows:
[last-words] shutdown { "Are you sure? ", "Y" }
The script sends the command text to the device. It terminates the command with
CommandTerminator.
If the command has a query, the device returns the query to the script. When it detects the
query prompt, the script sends the query response to the device.
Next, the device executes the commands, and sends its output back to the script.
If the command's output is long enough to result in more prompts, when the script detects a
MorePrompt, it sends MoreResponse to the device.
The script consumes the command's output until it detects CommandPrompt, at which point it
assumes that the command's output is complete.
If at any time the device's output stalls for more than Settings.ReadTimeout, it is assumed
that something is wrong, and the script returns failure.
If the command succeeds, and it has a KEY, its output is saved in the WhatsUp Gold database.
The following script is typical:
@login
enable { "password: ", "$(Settings.PrivilegedPassword)" }
[running-config] show run
[-] logout
This script first logs in with the @login command, then enters privileged mode with the
@enable command.
Next, the script sends the show run command to the device. The output of this command is
saved in the WUG database under the running-config key.
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