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ExtremeWare EPICenter Software Installation and User Guide 7-11
Using Interactive Telnet with Third-Party Devices
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Macro Recording and Playback from an Interactive Telnet Session
The record function creates a macro by echoing commands that you type in an interactive
Telnet session, into the Macro Record/Play Buffer. The record function is controlled by
commands from a pop-up menu displayed by using the right mouse button (see
Figure 7-6).
• To start recording a macro, click the right mouse button and select Start Record from
thepop-upmenu
Everything you type after this is copied into the macro Record/Play Buffer until you
select Stop Record from the pop-up menu
• To stoprecordingamacro,clicktherightmousebuttonandselectStopRecordfromthe
pop-up menu
• To play back the macro to multiple switches, select Teln et in the Component tree, and
play back the macro in the main Telnet page as discussed in the section Running
ExtremeWare Command Macros on page 7-3
• To play the macro on an individual switch, select the switch in the Component Tree to
displayits interactiveTelnet session, clickthe rightmouse button, and select Play from
thepop-upmenu
Using Interactive Telnet with Third-Party Devices
You can open an interactive Telnetsessionona third-party device and executecommands
interactively. Select the switch from the Telnet device list in the Component Tree. This
opens a Telnet session to the selected switch, and waits for input as appropriate to the
device’s telnet interface.Unlike Telnet to an Extreme Networks switch, it does not log you
in to the device. You must log in as required for the device.
You can enter and execute commands using the device’s command line interface. The
commandsandanyresultingoutputwillbedisplayedinthesessionwindowjustasifyou
were running a Telnet session on any other client.
TheTelnetsessionwindowisatwo-tonewindow—thebottom ofthewindowiswhite,the
topis grey. The last25 lines of Telnetcommandsand responsesalwaysappearin thewhite
portion of the window. As output grows, the older lines scroll up into the grey portion of