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must be in another continue pattern to force the last line before a pause in output to be the

router's prompt. The patterns are

.*Proceed.*

and

.*SHUTDOWN in.*

allowing any

characters before and after the keywords to match.

Alternatively, this example could have a third command after

reboot

to force a new router

prompt, but managing this problem with the continuation set seemed more straightforward.

Cisco Adaptive CLI Caveat

If you have not saved configuration changes for Cisco routers, then this Adaptive CLI fails. For sake

of this example, such a failure is the correct response. However, if the Adaptive CLI needs multiple

confirmations you can just add more with their responses as appears in the Continue Patterns

described above.

Example 4 - Adaptive CLI To Extract Upload/Download Speeds

The following describes an example Adaptive CLI configured to extract upload and download

ADSL speeds from a Cisco Router. To create this example, follow these steps:

Right-click to create a new Adaptive CLI in the Actions portlet.

Name it and configure the Adaptive CLI in the General screen. Since these are generic

settings described elsewhere, the details do not appear here.