Beast: Scotty and Expect

Ian Jarrett (etlinjt@etlxdmx.ericsson.se)
Thu, 4 Apr 1996 09:03:05 +-100

Hello tkined people,

I posted the enclosed to comp.dcom.net-management and comp.lang.tcl the other
day (April 2nd) and was quite overwhelmed by the response. It was suggested that
I mailed this mailing list, so incase you did not see my original post, here it is again.

I do not claim to be clever in the least, but thought a toolkit that combined the
power of scotty with the versatility of expect was something the world was lacking.
I think there may already be some similar toolkits around (check out expect as
supplied with Ciscoworks) but none (that I could see) that I would term "open".
Both expect and scotty are, after all, well documented and available.

Lastly, I will put it up for ftp real soon now, as soon as the powers that be give
me the ok.

Regards,

Ian

|> Hi All,
|>
|> I'd often considered how powerful a language would be if it could
|> interrogate a box to determine if it had an IP stack, if it supported
|> an SNMP agent and if that agent maintained any enterprise specific
|> mibs. Better still, once it'd worked out that a box did indeed support
|> SNMP, if it could intelligently launch into some node-dependent
|> dialogue to perhaps reconfigure the box in some way.
|>
|> I've been greatly impressed by expect, and all the implications of
|> what I could use it for from a network management perspective, and
|> recently I've been thrilled by scotty and the ease with which it
|> can perform quite complex SNMP operations.
|>
|> So, this spring afternoon I combined Both Expect And Scotty Together
|> and coined the language beast (well, I'd have been stupid not to
|> have called it that :-) Yet another useful tcl based toolkit!
|>
|> If anybody is interested in beast, please reply directly. If there is
|> enough interest I may even put it up for ftp on one of the servers
|> here at Ericsson.
|>
|> Regards,
|>
|>
|> Ian
|>
|>
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