automate an SSH connection to cisco switch

Do you have an example script for the PC? Posting it would be helpful to those who might want to translate it to the Mac.

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You could write a Unix bash script. To but a non-command line user interface on it, use Applescript. Here is an example applescript that invokes a Unix command.

(* 

It is easier to diagnose problems with debug information. I suggest adding log statements to your script to see what is going on.  Here is an example.


    Author: rccharles
    
    For testing, run in the Script Editor.
      1) Click on the Event Log tab to see the output from the log statement
      2) Click on Run
      
    For running shell commands see:
    http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/technotes/tn2002/tn2065.html
    


 *)


on run
    -- Write a message into the event log.
    log "  --- Starting on " & ((current date) as string) & " --- "
    --  debug lines
    set desktopPath to (path to desktop) as string
    log "desktopPath = " & desktopPath
    
    set unixDesktopPath to POSIX path of desktopPath
    log "unixDesktopPath = " & unixDesktopPath
    
    set quotedUnixDesktopPath to quoted form of unixDesktopPath
    log "quoted form is " & quotedUnixDesktopPath
    
    try
        set fromUnix to do shell script "ls -l  " & quotedUnixDesktopPath
        display dialog "ls -l of " & quotedUnixDesktopPath & return & fromUnix
    on error errMsg
        log "ls -l error..." & errMsg
    end try
    
end run

A problem is scripting whatever method you use to communicate with the modem or whatever. The solution you showed uses Expect to script a terminal. The terminal is then used to script the path to the modem.

You may be able to develop this on Windows. Expect claims to be portable across operating systems. On the downside, Expect lets you include OS commands which will not be. The action takes place in a scripting language called Expect.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expect

Microsoft seems to have based PowerShell on Unix script languages like Bash, but not an exact copy.

getting Expect to run may be a hassle. I haven't tried.

http://expect.sourceforge.net/

https://supportforums.cisco.com/discussion/11553001/script-automate-tasks

file ssh.sh invokes the file enableint.sh for each ip address in the File1-IP-list.
.

#!/bin/bash
while read  ipadd
do
#echo $ipadd
export ipadd
./enableint.sh $ipadd
done < IP-list

#!/bin/bash

Identifies this file as a bash script.

#!/usr/bin/expect -f

Identifies this file as an expect script