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What is the Networkers Expect Admin Tool (NEAT)?

I was recently given the task of making some minor configuration changes on about 80 Juniper switches. I believed there had to be a way to script this. When I posted on Juniper's forum, someone recommended the Expect programming language. Not too much later, I had a working Expect script that stored my credentials once, then read each IP address to be configured from a text file and iterated through the list, making all of the changes.

I want to make this functionality available to everyone and to expand on the bare-bones concept. Some future features I want to add are prompting for login and password, and error handling.

Please join the project if you're interested, or offer suggestions for features you would like to see.

Posted by Ted LeRoy 2011-09-28 Labels: NEAT's origin and purpose

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