Cisco-send-v0.11

Changes;

• --help Arg Parser
• Ability to override --device-file and --delay on command line
• DEFAULT_DEVICE_FILE and DEFAULT_DELAY variables inside script are easily changed.

Cisco-send-v0.1

Python Version

• Asynchronous Reading: Uses a separate thread to read from the serial port and print syslog messages asynchronously.
• User Authentication: Handles username and password authentication if required.
• Automatic Elevation: Detects device state and elevates to (config)# mode automatically.
• Syslog Buffering: Stores all syslog messages in a buffer.
• User Prompts: + Asks if the user wants to print buffered syslog messages to the terminal. + Offers to save running-config to startup-config. + Provides an option to save syslog buffer to a local log file.
• Asks to write running-config to memory: Save the new config to startup-config

Bash Version

• No External Dependencies: Doesn't require any additional libraries.
• No support if require credentials to enter Config# mode: Start with fresh device, wipe it, or manually enter # prompt prior to running script.
• No support for printing syslog messages: No syslog response returned to console due to bash single thread limitations.