Script for Firmware Update

[FlorianP2023]

Hello, I would like to implement a simple task for firmwareupdate.

The following command does the copy task: "copy tftp://1.1.1.1/firmware.dat backup" But you have to confirm by pressing "y" afterwards (on the CLI). I dont know how to implement this. Is there an example for this? My implementation doesn't work since it is not sending "y" to confirm.

function run(cli, device) { cli.macro("configure"); cli.command("copy tftp://10.10.10.10/N1100v6.7.1.21.stk backup"); cli.macro("end"); }

In addition the copy task will take up to 5 min. Will I run into a timeout? (and how to avoid this?) Any help is appreciated. Regards

[FlorianP2023]

Hello again, I managed to put the firmware update command in a macro. But this is static, but I have to use different filenames for different firmware image (and also in future).

So is there a way to interact with the switch cli using the script (in the window)?

For example, I send function run(cli, device) { cli.macro("enable"); cli.command("copy tftp://10.9.112.75/N1100v6.7.1.21.stk backup"); cli.command("boot system backup"); } The switch CLI response is "Are you sure you want to start? (y/n) ". The script stops here and runns into a timeout. How to send the neccessary "y"? Any idea? I have similiar problems with other commands that have to be confirmed. I'm sure there is way but I don't see it. Again, any help is very much appreciated. See also attached log.

Regards fwupdate-log.txt

[SCadilhac]

Macros with params could be useful indeed. For the time being you should be able to do something like:

cli.command("copy tftp://10.9.112.75/N1100v6.7.1.21.stk backup", {
  mode: {
    prompt: /Are you sure you want to start? \(y\/n\)/,
  },
  timeout: 300000,
});
cli.command("y");

[FlorianP2023]

Thank you very much.

I will try when I'm back in the office.

Regards

[FlorianP2023]

Thank you very much, it works now and I could update my switches on the fly (over 200).

Is there a documentation which commands I can use in the scripts? I added one item to the device called "Last Snapshot" and wanted to fill it with the date of the snapshot (during the snapshot).

I used for this device.set("lastSnapshot", getDate()); but it fails. How can I populate this field with the actual date and time?

Regards, Florian

[FlorianP2023]

Hello!

I'm still waitung for an answer. Again, does anybody know how to get the actual time inside the scripting? Is there a documentation for the script language? (is java script fully supported?)

Thanks for your help Florian

[momolemo]

this is just javascript.

this should be work

var date = new Date();
date.getTime()