Service Manual

Creating a User Name and Password for Smart Scripting

Before you run a script from the Dell Networking OS CLI, you may want to configure an additional user

name and password to use only to run scripts on a switch.

Use the user name and password to log in to a UNIX shell and apply the read-write privileges assigned to

the user name when a script runs with the script command from the Dell Networking OS CLI.

The user name is an optional keyword in the script command (refer to Scheduling Time / Event-based

Scripts). To satisfy the requirements for a UNIX BSD login, the username must be fewer than 16

characters. A username you use to run scripts cannot contain special characters.

• Create an additional user name and password that you use to log in to a shell and apply read-write

privileges when you run a script.

CONFIGURATION mode

username name password password

Logging in to a NetBSD UNIX Shell

To log in to the NetBSD UNIX shell on a switch to directly use any of the UNIX commands described in

Supported UNIX Utilities or to run a script, use the start shell command.

You are prompted to enter a user name and password before you can access the shell. Login is

performed using SSHv2.

• Access the shell to run UNIX commands or a script (refer to Running a Script from the UNIX Shell).

EXEC Privilege mode

start shell

Downloading Scripts to a Switch

Download a script to the switch using TFTP, FTP, or FLASH. Save the script to the dedicated script storage

location, /usr/pkg/ss-scripts.

1. Configure the folders to mount a remote directory in the local Dell Networking OS path through a

network file system (NFS).

CONFIGURATION mode

mount nfs nfs-server-ip: remote_dir mount_name [username username | password

password]

2. Copy a script to a switch. Downloaded files are stored in the following path: /usr/pkg/ss-

scripts

EXEC

script get url

3. Remove a script from a switch.

EXEC

script remove {file_name file-name | all}

Smart Scripting