Automate a Manual Telnet Process using HP Operations Orchestration

2013-11-29

Automate a Manual Telnet Process using HP Operations Orchestration

Introduction

This is a very brief tutorial to illustrate how a manual telnet process can be captured and translated into an automated process flow for use in HP Operations Orchestration (OO). I will use one of the available OO wizards that record the manual actions and generate re-useable OO flows. Please remember that although there are a few extra steps to generate this content than the manual process – you only need to generate the content (flows) once and can consume (run) them many times. The manual process of configuring port triggering on a router is used here.

Manual Process Instructions

Connecting to a Router via telnet and configuring port triggering

Open a telnet connection to your router.
When prompted enter the same admin user name and password as you use to connect to the web interface
First we need to confirm port triggering isn’t configured. The commands provided in this post assume this is the case. to confirm this type:

srv nat trigger -v

The output returned should show all available trigger spots as disabled and no labels/comments should be present. The output should look like:

%% Port Trigger Rule status:

Index Status Comment TProto TPort IProto IPort

—————————————————–

1 Disable

2 Disable

3 Disable

4 Disable

5 Disable

6 Disable

……

Once we have confirmed there are no configured port triggers, we can add the needed entries using the commands below. Enter each line once at a time followed by enter/return.

srv nat trigger 1 -c XBLA1 -e 1 -p 3 -t 53 -P 3 -i 53