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The Interactive Telnet Feature
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There are three ways to enter commands into the macro buffer:
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Type commands directly into the buffer.
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Cut or copy commands from another location, either elsewhere in the buffer or from an external
document, and paste them into the buffer.
Click the right mouse button anywhere in the macro buffer to display a pop-up edit menu which
provides copy and paste functions. You can copy text from within the macro buffer using the
copy function from the pop-up menu. From an external document, cut or copy text into the
clipboard, then use the paste function from the pop-up edit menu.
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Load a saved macro (see “Loading a Saved Macro” on page 207 ).
The source of the commands in the macro buffer is indicated by the Macro Source: field at the top of
the macro buffer panel.
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You can insert any of eight system variables, and any user-defined variables that were saved with
a macro you have loaded.
NOTE
If you have not loaded a macro, no user-defined variables are available, as they are not shared between macros.
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You can also set the macro to play back repeatedly at a specified interval (see “Configuring a
Repeat Interval” on page 204 ).
The Macro Player view provides the following functions:
Playing a Macro
Click Play to initiate playback of the macro on the selected switches. This opens a connection to each
switch, logs in using the switch login and password as specified in the Inventory Manager, and runs the
macro.
If the macro is a repeating macro, it repeats sequentially on all selected switches until you click Stop .
You can execute just a portion of a macro by highlighting just the portion of the macro that you want to
execute. Only the selected portion will execute when you initiate the playback. This does not affect
saving the macro—the entire macro is saved even if only a portion is highlighted.
Play Plays the macro currently showing in the macro buffer on the devices selected in the Telnet
connections table. See
“Playing a Macro” below this table.
Stop Stops playback of the macro currently executing.
Repeat Configures a repeat delay interval for the macro. See “Configuring a Repeat Interval” on
page 204 .
New Clears the macro buffer to allow a new macro to be created. If the buffer currently has contents
that have not been saved, a warning is issued and confirmation of the clear action is required.
Load Loads a saved macro into the macro buffer. The name of the loaded macro appears in the Macro
Source field. See
“Loading a Saved Macro” on page 207
View Displays the Telnet log of results for the last macro run on the selected device. You can save the
results to a file on the local system, if desired. See
“Viewing Macro Results” on page 204
Vars Enables selection of system or user-defined variables for inclusion in the macro. See “Using
Variables in a Macro” on page 203
Note: User-defined variables are not shared between saved macros, so user-defined variables only
appear in the Vars list if you have loaded a macro that has variables defined.