About the CLI Settings Library

At its base functionality, WhatsConfigured is a software created to help you automate many configuration tasks for your network devices. WhatsConfigured carries out these configuration tasks by programmatically interacting with your devices' command line interface (CLI). Many device vendors specify different standards for how network administrators interact with their CLI. For example, the character sequence in a command prompt, or the sequence that indicates the end of a command. To provide you with greater flexibility, WhatsConfigured allows you to override the default CLI settings by defining custom sets of CLI elements for devices from a particular vendor or for specific IP addresses. This helps ensure that WhatsConfigured can correctly communicate with these devices as it attempts to carry out tasks. The Remote CLI Settings library stores all CLI Settings used to issue the commands necessary to carry out WhatsConfigured tasks on your network devices.

The library includes two default settings and various pre-defined system settings that come installed with WhatsConfigured. You can use these system settings, or copy them to create new, user-defined settings for devices that support a particular OID or a specific IP address.

To access the Remote CLI Settings library:

From the WhatsUp Gold web interface, go to Configured > CLI Settings Library.

To configure new or existing settings:

Note: The Edit and Delete, buttons are disabled for the default and pre-configured system scripts, as you cannot modify or remove default or system scripts.

OID and device IP address keys

The two default scripts for telnet and SSH do not use keys (OID nor IP). WhatsConfigured uses the default scripts to communicate with devices for which it does not find OIDs or an IP address. Pre-configured, system settings are based on specific OIDs, SNMP objects assigned by manufacturers in their private MIBs that identify different models of the equipment. WhatsConfigured can use these settings on any device that supports the OID specified in the set of CLI settings. User-defined settings can be based on either a single or grouping of OIDs, or on a specific device IP address.

Filtering

You can filter the Remote CLI Settings library for a specific device or group of devices with the Filter by Device list. This list is populated by previous devices by which you have filtered. The first time you open this dialog the list is unpopulated (<None>). To select a device for which to view and/or configure settings, click the Select button.

Order of settings

WhatsConfigured first looks for and uses user-defined settings to communicate with a device. If no user-specified settings exist, it looks for and uses appropriate system settings. If a device does not support an OID specified within any of the system settings, WhatsConfigured falls back on the default settings which do not specify specific OIDs.

In the event that you configure two sets of settings for the same IP address or OID/grouping of OIDs, WhatsConfigured uses the last set of settings in the list, or the second set of settings you created for the specific IP address or OID(s).

See Also

Using the CLI Setting Library

About CLI Settings

Configuring CLI settings

Importing and exporting CLI settings