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 Post subject: Switch Macros
PostPosted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 2:17 pm 
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 Post subject: Re: Switch Macros
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thats great :) :bowdown:

I wouldnt have noticed this function before. Very nice. I think this will save some time and prevent some human errors, hopefully :)

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 Post subject: Re: Switch Macros
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Are switch macros in effect after they are run like an active template or is it a one time thing used to set up parameters?
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 Post subject: Re: Switch Macros
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interesting, never used it before.

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 Post subject: Re: Switch Macros
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inzeos wrote:
Are switch macros in effect after they are run like an active template or is it a one time thing used to set up parameters?


They are part of the config and always usable. That answer your question?

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 Post subject: Re: Switch Macros
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Interesting... Although not sure where I'd ever use these. If I wanted to apply a config to more than one interface I'd use an interface range. I don't know how often I'd ever need to go back and run the same commands again and again, unless it was a macro of some show commands (that I could record to a text file to view) or a special save to tftp setup to multiple servers.

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 Post subject: Re: Switch Macros
PostPosted: Fri Jul 02, 2010 9:57 am 
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Might be good for engineering/architecture to hand over to operations. Design macros to configure specific types of switchports and hand that over to your NOC or ops team.

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 Post subject: Re: Switch Macros
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for show commands you would probably be better off with an alias

In this case I beleve the following command will make sr equivalent to running-config
alias exec sr show running-config

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 Post subject: Re: Switch Macros
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Yeh... I'm not really one for aliases either. If you get too lazy with them and forget the real commands when you get on a device without the aliases you have trouble. And with being able to shorten them anyway, "sh run", it's kind of overkill.

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 Post subject: Re: Switch Macros
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yeah
but if you could make
ta = switchport trunk allowed vlan add
that might be nice

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 Post subject: Re: Switch Macros
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sw tr al v a

Granted not as short, but still a good deal less than the full one.

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 Post subject: Re: Switch Macros
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you ruining my technical solution to a non-existent problem... stop that!!!

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 Post subject: Re: Switch Macros
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We are gonna have to re-IP alot of stuff here soon and due to the way we are doing it we have to delete the IP from vlan 1 (management) and put it on another vlan (not vlan 1 management). As this will continue to run once the SSH session dies (cause you removed the management IP address) I think we can use macros for that.

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 Post subject: Re: Switch Macros
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what's the significance of putting in "macro global" as opposed to just "macro" when executing?
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 Post subject: Re: Switch Macros
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you can text up the config, put the file on an http server and
issue the command
configure replace http://1.1.1.1/switch1.txt
<where 1.1.1.1 is your http server address and switch1.txt is the new config file>

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 Post subject: Re: Switch Macros
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dlots wrote:
We are gonna have to re-IP alot of stuff here soon and due to the way we are doing it we have to delete the IP from vlan 1 (management) and put it on another vlan (not vlan 1 management). As this will continue to run once the SSH session dies (cause you removed the management IP address) I think we can use macros for that.


This is when to use them. Your first example is stupid.

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 Post subject: Re: Switch Macros
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This is when to use them. Your first example is stupid.


we have more than 1.2k APs on campus and putting more out almost every day.

automating the port config so anyone can do it IMO was well worth it

And that one had a variable in it showing it could be more versital.

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 Post subject: Re: Switch Macros
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Still stupid. You should have a script shared between engineers. If you deploy this macro across 100 switches and then decide to change the config, you now have to change the macro on every switch. Stupid.

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dlots
 Post subject: Re: Switch Macros
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yep... see blog post about mass deployments via SNMP :-P

I did try the script before the macro but it didn't take for whatever reason... but they liked the macro.

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