User guide

7-6 ExtremeWare EPICenter Software Installation and User Guide
Using the Interactive Telnet Application
4 Click Play to initiate playback of the macro on the selected switches. This opens a
connectiontotheswitch,logsinusingtheswitchloginandpasswordasspecifiedinthe
Inventory Manager, and runs the macro.
If the macro is a repeating macro, it will repeat sequentially on all selected switches
until you click Stop.
You can execute just a portion of a macro by highlighting just the portion of the macro
that you want to execute. Only the selected portion will execute when you initiate the
playback. This will not affect saving the macro—the entire macro will be saved even if
only a portion is highlighted.
The Macro Status column in the Telnet Connections table indicates the status of the
macro as execution progresses on the selected switches. The states are:
—Pending—themacroisintendedtorunonthisswitch,buthasnotyetstarted.
—Playing—the macro is currently running.
—Stopped—the macro was stopped before it completed.
—Complete—the macro has completed running.
— Macros Not Supported—macros cannot be run on this device (may appear if you
select a non-Extreme device or theSummit Px1 or Summit 24e2T/X devices).
— Not Available—macros cannot be run on this device (may appear if you select a
non-Extreme device).
—Failed—a failure occurred when the macro was run. This is frequently due to an
inability to connect to the switch.
Macro play will be automatically stopped if you exit the Telnet applet (by
selecting another applet or logging out) while a macro is running.
The Telnet session is usually left open after the macros complete. However, EPICenter
allows only five Telnetsessions to be openconcurrently. Therefore,ifyou select more than
five switches for macro playback, EPICenter will open five connections, then close the
oldest (the first connection) in order to open a connection on the sixth switch, and so on.
When macro playbackhas completed on all the selected switches, the Telnet sessions are
left open on the last five switches.Open telnet sessions are indicated by displaying the
switch name in bold in the Component Tree.
Any open Telnet sessions will be closed when you leave the Telnet applet to view a
different EPICenter applet.
To view the results of the macro execution on a particular switch, select the switch in the
Telnetswitchlist inthe ComponentTree.Thisdisplays theactive Telnetsessionrunning on