handling prompts in cli sessions

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emmanuel asked May 4, '11 emmanuel posted May 4, '11

handling prompts in cli sessions

How can i execute the next command on a cli depending upon the prompt i get?

For example when login to my device, sometimes it asks for login and password and sometimes it gives me the # prompt to enter my commands skipping the login.

I want to say if prompt is "login:" then enter loginname and password and if prompt is # then enter some cli command.

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Answer 1 · 2011-05-04T20:21:50Z

JeffJ answered May 4, '11 JeffJ posted May 4, '11

First, create a procedure to do your login.

Secondly, create an analysis statement that queries prompt() and compares it to "login:". For the true condition, add an analysis step "CallProcedure" and call the login procedure to login. You can simply ignore the "if false" condition since you're already logged in.

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sreenath commented · May 05, 2011 at 10:09 AM

Hi emmauel,

Please find the attached test case.

Hope this is helpful to you.

Thanks

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dclaar sreenath commented · May 05, 2011 at 07:19 PM

I prefer to query promptName(), as that abstracts the actual data, meaning that--if the prompt changes from "login" to "Login"--you won't have to chase through your tests everywhere looking for the string "login", but just change the prompt, which should also be abstracted to the highest common session profile.

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emmanuel dclaar commented · May 09, 2011 at 09:25 PM

Thank you very much for the answers Jeff, Sreenath and Dclaar.

So we have the queries prompt() and promptName() for handling the prompts.

I am using promptName() with the prompts put in the session profile.

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