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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-AU link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Depends if you already know the IP’s and credentials of these devices, or can knock up a script to guess the IP, and credentials from a set list,. If not I think it would be more practical to script a console boot/break/password recovery and use a terminal server to scale it if needs be.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Also you need to weigh up the time it takes to get a junior to do this manually against the value of spending time attempting to automate it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Might warrant a different approach if you had a few thousand to do rather than a few hundred…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Jake Anderson<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, 13 April 2012 11:14 AM<br><b>To:</b> hannah commodore<br><b>Cc:</b> ausnog@lists.ausnog.net<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [AusNOG] Preparing 100s of routers for resale<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I'd be trying to do it via network rather than serial<br>just because by serial your only going to be able to do a few at a time and the boot time etc for these things can be excessive.<br><br>On 12/04/12 21:48, hannah commodore wrote: <o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>On 12/04/2012, at 20:10, Ashley Lowde <<a href="mailto:ashley.lowde@gmail.com">ashley.lowde@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal>Are they all using the same (or only a couple of different) images? If so I'd suggest<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>replacing <b>all</b> the compact flash cards, then booting each one and grabbing the appropriate<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>image from a tftp server. You can then reboot it and clear the config using password<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>recovery mode if necessary.<o:p></o:p></p></div></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>I don't have access to these devices yet, but from previous experience it would likely be a single basic 12.4 image with just vlan/port/trunk port/snmp configs<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:13.0pt'>On 12/04/2012, at 20:09, Jason Leschnik <<a href="mailto:leschnik@gmail.com">leschnik@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span></span><span style='font-size:13.0pt'><br><br><br></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:13.0pt'>Do they have SSH?</span></span><span style='font-size:13.0pt'><br><span class=apple-style-span>Do they have a similar auth config user/password?</span><br><br></span><o:p></o:p></p></div></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:13.0pt'>does the ssh info get stored elsewhere?</span></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.0pt'><br><br></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.0pt'><br><br></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks all for the suggestions. Seems automating a serial console session will be the best option for this task. I'll just script a Linux netbook so I can churn through them. <o:p></o:p></p></div></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><pre>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>AusNOG mailing list<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="mailto:AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net">AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog">http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog</a><o:p></o:p></pre><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p><span style='color:windowtext'>Message protected by MailGuard: e-mail anti-virus, anti-spam and content filtering.<br><a href="http://www.mailguard.com.au/mg">http://www.mailguard.com.au/mg</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'><br><a href="https://login.mailguard.com.au/report/1EwBfoAYZk/2XzIImWARP5bjKUcY4mLlJ/1.002">Report this message as spam</a> <br> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html><br><p>Message protected by MailGuard: e-mail anti-virus, anti-spam and content filtering.<br /><a href="http://www.mailguard.com.au/mg">http://www.mailguard.com.au/mg</a></p>
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