router management

[ChrisAC]

Can anybody recommend a good way (or tool) for changing the passwords on 400 plus routers without having to log in manually to each and every one. We want to be able to change the passwords say every six months and each router has an individual enable secret and access password generated by a script. I think that we may end up writing a script to log into the routers and make the changes but I just wondered if anyone else does something similar.

Just a thought! We've got a serious lack of 'management capabilities' at the moment and it needs looking at.

Cheers,

Chris. **********************
Chris Andrew, CCNA, CCSA
chris@iproute.co.uk
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[jgercken]

Write a script
or
use CiscoWorks' RME

Why don't you use TACACS+?

I wrote a python script that works well. It creates an output file that looks like:

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Output from script config.py
by Jeff Gercken
02-05-03 15:49:07
command: set protocolfilter enable
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s60-a-1
set protocolfilter enable
Protocol filtering enabled on this switch.
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s60-a-2
set protocolfilter enable
Protocol filtering enabled on this switch.
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and so on...
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