Concept Guide

With Smart Scripting, you don’t need to learn proprietary scripting languages; allowing for faster development and deployment of custom
scripts.
Smart Scripting also oers 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 EMC 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 conguration information.
• Reporting switch memory usage, congured virtual local area networks (VLANs), and other operation and conguration 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 conguration of switch ports to verify that no change occurs and generate an alarm if a conguration change is detected
as part of a cloud-computing deployment.
• Stage CLI command requests received from a customer. If a link aps, 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, conguration management database on a remote server to retrieve information on port operation and recongure
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, nd a specied 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 trac. 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 conguration 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 EMC Networking OS website.
The Smart Script lenames are:
• SMARTSCRIPTS-LITE-A-9.14.1.0.tar.gz for S3100 Series.
• SMARTSCRIPTS-P-9.14.1.0.tar.gz for S4810, S4820T, and S5000.
• SMARTSCRIPTS-I-9.14.1.0.tar.gz for S6000, S6000–ON, S6010–ON, S6100–ON, Z9500, C9010, S3048–ON, S4048–ON,
S4048T–ON, and Z9100–ON.
• SMARTSCRIPTS-I-9.14.1.0.tar.gz for S5048F–ON.
• SMARTSCRIPTS-M-9.14.1.0.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 les and functionality:
• Perl interpreter and associated les.
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