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With Smart Scripting, you don’t need to learn proprietary scripting languages; allowing for faster development and deployment of custom

scripts.

Smart Scripting also offers solutions in a UNIX environment useful to cloud administrators who are familiar with working in a UNIX shell.

Smart Script support in a UNIX environment allows you to invoke standard UNIX utilities like netstat, tcpdump, ls, chmod,

chown, and so on.

Smart Scripting supports running a script either from the Dell Networking OS CLI or directly from a UNIX shell. You can run scripts

periodically, based on events, at boot up or after the switch is initialized. In addition, you can run scripts in the foreground or background

and display the progress of a script. If required, you can cancel, stop, or resume scripts.

Smart Scripting allows you to automate common management and maintenance tasks, such as:

• Building visibility and/or discovery programs.

• Creating custom logging.

• Reporting configuration information.

• Reporting switch memory usage, configured virtual local area networks (VLANs), and other operation and configuration parameters.

• Creating custom APIs for external applications to access the switch.

• Automating custom provisioning of network devices to support server virtualization.

For example, you can automate any of the following tasks:

• Monitor the configuration of switch ports to verify that no change occurs and generate an alarm if a configuration change is detected

as part of a cloud-computing deployment.

• Stage CLI command requests received from a customer. If a link flaps, the command completion status is held in the script so you can

see when the management plane reconnects.

• Generate time-based reports to receive updates on network status on a periodic basis.

• Query an external, configuration management database on a remote server to retrieve information on port operation and reconfigure

switch ports based on the data received.

• Apply additional time-based access-control lists (ACLs) to limit after hours access.

• Monitor network requests; for example, find a specified MAC address or generate a health-check heartbeat.

• Create a simple menu of options that a non-network administrator can use to create requests to send to the network.

Smart Scripting consolidates management data inside a switch and sends it to management consoles, databases, or applications —

reducing polling and network traffic. For example, you can use a script as part of a cloud-computing deployment to detect when the

network has changed, query a database server for configuration management database (CMDB) information, and ultimately apply network

changes based on the data.

Download the Smart Scripting Package

Download the Smart Scripts package from the Dell Networking OS website.

The Smart Script filenames are:

• SMARTSCRIPTS-LITE-A-9.11.0.0.tar.gz for S3100 Series.

• SMARTSCRIPTS-P-9.11.0.0.tar.gz for S4810, S4820T, and S5000.

• SMARTSCRIPTS-I-9.11.0.0.tar.gz for S6000, S6000–ON, S6010–ON, S6100–ON, Z9500, C9010, S3048–ON, S4048–ON,

S4048T–ON, and Z9100–ON.

• SMARTSCRIPTS-M-9.11.0.0.tar.gz for MXL Switch.

To download the SmartScript package to a dedicated location, use one of the following methods: TFTP, FTP, Flash, or NFSMount.

The Smart Scripting package includes the following files and functionality:

• Perl interpreter and associated files.

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