Performance and Fault Management

Setting Up Telnet Access Characteristics

Many network operations folks probably spend most of their time Telnetted into their Cisco devices when they are troubleshooting issues or even looking at statistics, rather than looking at an NMS station's GUI representation of the data. Some folks even use Telnet as their method of managing the network by using scripts written in Spy, Expect, or even Perl. If this is how you manage your network, consider the steps outlined in the following sections.

Set the Terminal Length to 0 When Using Scripts to Gather the Data

When there are multiple “screen dumps” associated with a particular show command, it is not efficient to always insert a <space> when the next screen needs to be displayed, as seen from a ...