Scripting Firewall Sessions with Python

[Caoimhin]

My current script is as follows:

def Main():

	for X in range (1, crt.GetTabCount() + 1):
		Start = crt.GetScriptTab()
		CurrentTab = crt.GetTab(X)
		CurrentScreen = CurrentTab.Screen
		CurrentTab.Activate()
                Tab.Session.LogFileName = "C:\Users\O3278\Documents\Logs\Firewall Information %M-%D.log"
		CurrentScreen.Send("\r")
		CurrentScreen.Send("more system:running-config\r")
		if CurrentScreen.WaitForString("<--- More --->") == True:
			CurrentScreen.Send(" ")
		
Main()

I've had to dumb down the script multiple times but essentially what I want it to do is to set the log file for every session to the same file. Next I want it to go through the tabs one by one. I send a carriage return initially because I've set my sessions to send a period every 5 minutes to prevent the session from timing out. After the line is cleared I send a command to the current tab waiting for "<---More--->" and sending a spacebar if it comes up.

I know this can be done because I've done it in VB. But what I'm encountering is the log file was being reset fine, but each session was trying to send the data at the same time. I was getting multiple copies of the file with a _1, _2, _3 appended to it. Now I've managed to get the script to cycle through the open tabs and send a CR in each tab. When I add the command to the script the command gets run multiple times in the script tab, but not in the other tabs.

I'm wondering if the primary session is being overwhelmed. I'm going to try it with a crt.Sleep(3000) and see if the command gets issues to the other tabs. Or it may be that I need to increase the "Line Send Delay".

Anyone have any ideas?

[rtb]

Hi Caoimhin,

Thanks for the post.

I see that you are getting a CurrentTab object, but then when you set the log, you don't use the CurrentTab object.

If you modify the line that logs to use CurrentTab, do you get better results?

[Caoimhin]

Funny I was thinking the same thing. So the code was altered since my last post:

# $language = "python"
# $interface = "1.0"

def Main():

	for X in range (1, crt.GetTabCount() + 1):
		Start = crt.GetScriptTab()
		CurrentTab = crt.GetTab(X)
		CurrentScreen = CurrentTab.Screen
		CurrentTab.Activate()
		CurrentScreen.Synchronous == True
		CurrentTab.Session.LogFileName = "C:\Users\O3278\Documents\Logs\Firewall Information %M-%D.log"
		if not crt.Session.Logging == True:
			crt.Session.Logging (True, True)
		CurrentScreen.Send("\r")
		CurrentScreen.Send("more system:running-config\r")
		for Y in range (1, 20):
			CurrentScreen.Send(" ")
		crt.Sleep(10000)
		CurrentTab.Session.LogFileName = "C:\Users\O3278\Documents\Logs\Firewalls\%S %M-%D.log"
		
Main()

This script is now issuing the command to each tab and cycling through the <---More---> pauses. My log file is not being created though. I know the script changes the log file successfully. I have run the code separately and then checked the session details. I've been looking into alternative methods of streaming the data to a file.

[rtb]

Hi Caoimhin,

You are now using the crt object rather than the CurrentTab object to determine if logging is enabled.

Additionally, you are trying to set the Logging property which is read only. If you want to start logging, you would need to use the CurrentTab object and the Log() method.

Does this help to resolve the issue?