To use wktools in such an environment, the MultiHop option was added. Here you can have multiple entry points to the network.
It is important to know, that the tool never sends "exit" or "logout" to any device, so you are responsible to logout again from a configured device. Because of this precondition it is recommended that a different config file is used for the Management station. This config file can be empty.
Download the used files here.
At a minimum the following files are needed:
The configuration in the "Settings" Tab is as follows:
This information is now used at the DeviceGroup Tab to generate the settings for the hosts:
After pressing the START button the devices are now configured. The output looks like the following one. Please note that the first host is now used as entry point to the network and to connect to the second one.
---- OUTPUT ----
Tue Nov 21 10:19:29 2006: Configuring 172.31.150.251 ...
User Access Verification
Username: labuser
Password:
Terminalserver-CCIE#
Terminalserver-CCIE#
Tue Nov 21 10:19:35 2006: Configuring 172.31.150.252 ...
Terminalserver-CCIE#telnet 172.31.150.252
Trying 172.31.150.252 ... Open
User Access Verification
Username: labuser
Password:
console2#
console2#show run
Building configuration...
Current configuration : 2291 bytes
!
version 12.2
service tcp-keepalives-in
service tcp-keepalives-out
....
....
....
line vty 3 4
access-class 101 in
exec-timeout 0 0
password 7 1511
authorization commands 15 lab
authorization exec lab
logging synchronous
login authentication lab
transport preferred telnet
!
end console2#
Tue Nov 21 10:19:42 2006:
--- END ---
IP Addresses with MAJOR ERRORS:
IP Addresses with WARNINGS:
IP Addresses without any errors:
172.31.150.251
172.31.150.252
---- OUTPUT END ----