fbsd mgmt server, telnet through ssh tunnel to Cisco possible ?

[Erik at MicroController.nl]

see ssh key's
and the man page of ssh-keygen

-Erik.

On Sat, 2004-02-07 at 13:45, Andreas Klemm wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a FreeBSD 5.2.1 monitoring system up and running.
> It uses shellscripts with netcat to login to the ciscos
> get some data out of it, writes results to files etc ...
> For these mechanism to work I need to be able to telnet to the
> ciscos.
> 
> Unluckily I have now a bunch of Ciscos, where only ssh login
> is possible and where no rsh server functionality is allowed.
> 
> Is it somehow possible to telnet to the ciscos via a ssh tunnel ?
> And without the Cisco prompting for a password ?
> 
> Is there something other available than netcat to make
> batched data collection scripts to ciscos possible on a
> ssh basis ???
> 
> Any recommendations that could work ?
> 
> Currently I use something like this
> 
> for cisco in $*
> do
> nc [options] $cisco > /some/path/sh-run/$cisco-confg <<!EOS
> 	password
> 	ena
> 	password
> 	sh runn
> 	quit
> !EOS
> done
> 
> How can I get this via ssh ???
> 
> And best without having to enter a password, so that it can
> be executed via cron on a regulary basis .... ?!
> 
> 	Andreas ///
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