Telnet/SSH Program that allows Macros

[Trooper599]

Not sure if this is in the right forum or not, but it's worth a try.

I currently work with roughly 300+ servers scattered all over North America, Europe and the Middle East. We connect remotely to these servers using SSH and SSH2. We are currently using a program called Smart Term (emulation software) but the problem is, we don't know the cypher they use to encrypt passwords, and we need to know it due to a piece of software we are developing, and trying to impliment the program into it.

We have been using PuTTy in the mean time, but we havn't been able to impliment any macros the way we have with Smart Term.

If anyone knows of any good Telnet/SSH/SSH2 programs that we can impliment macros into it would be greatly appreciated. If you don't know, but know where to send me where they might know, it would also be appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

 

[ScottMac]

Check out qmodem; I found a number of hits using Google.

My recollection is that Qmodem was fairly sophisticated scripting .... people wrote video games in Qmodem script.

There was another package, I know I saw it at CDW, but I can't remember the name. IT was a contemporary of Qmodem ... light purple package ... (it sucks to get old). IF I can remember the name, I'll edit/repost.

Another (possibly) simple solution might be Linux. You can open & script all sorts of Telnet and SSH ...

Or try Perl and some modules like Net::Telnet and / or Net::Telnet::Cisco (runs on pretty much anything (Windows, *nix, Mac ....).

Good Luck

Scott

 

[jlfirehawk]

SecureCRT has always worked well for me, not sure if it will do exactly what you want but it will run a variety of scripts.

 

[nweaver]

expect or perl or a combination of both

 

[ScottMac]

SCRT is great! I love it, it's my favorite term application.

Unfortunately, I don't think it allows scripts beyond simple login sequences.

FWIW

Scott