[AusNOG] Preparing 100s of routers for resale

[Eric Pinkerton]

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.

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.

Might warrant a different approach if you had a few thousand to do rather than a few hundred...

From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Jake Anderson
Sent: Friday, 13 April 2012 11:14 AM
To: hannah commodore
Cc: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Preparing 100s of routers for resale

I'd be trying to do it via network rather than serial
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.

On 12/04/12 21:48, hannah commodore wrote:
On 12/04/2012, at 20:10, Ashley Lowde <ashley.lowde at gmail.com<mailto:ashley.lowde at gmail.com>> wrote:
Are they all using the same (or only a couple of different) images? If so I'd suggest
replacing all the compact flash cards, then booting each one and grabbing the appropriate
image from a tftp server. You can then reboot it and clear the config using password
recovery mode if necessary.

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

On 12/04/2012, at 20:09, Jason Leschnik <leschnik at gmail.com<mailto:leschnik at gmail.com>> wrote:


Do they have SSH?
Do they have a similar auth config user/password?


does the ssh info get stored elsewhere?




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.




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