telnet\Expect script for Daylight savings time for USPs

[Xeldata]

I am trying to write a telnet\Expect script for Daylight savings time for USPs. --- the USP has a unique name uspxxx1 and a unique IP 10.x.x.1, username and password. There are multiple USPs that are on a GUI server --- you may assume any number of USPs greater than 1.

Q: Does anyone have a clue on how to write a telnet\expect script to accomplish this task. This is a Nortel Platform stuffs.

Many thanks in advance

Michael

[Michael McNamara]

Hi Michael and welcome to the forums!

I'm not familiar with the USP (Universal Signaling Point) myself... can you set the daylight saving time information via telnet?

If you can set the configuration via telnet you can probably use autoexpect to help record the process, then you can clean up the script generated by autoexpect and write an accompanying shell script to call the Expect script with a variable FQDN or IP address of the device you'd like to reconfigure.

You can see an example here;
http://blog.michaelfmcnamara.com/2008/07/expect-script-daylight-saving-time/

You can see that I wrote an Expect script to perform the actual configuration change and a Bash Shell script to call the Expect script for each switch that needed to be reconfigured.

Good Luck!