Dynamic prompts

Two prompt variables can be used to store the device command prompt, and then later use it for purposes such as a deliminator when extracting device responses. They are $prompt1$ and $prompt2$ , and are accessed by getPromptN and setPromptN commands.

Commands

First you initialize the prompt variable, for example:

config.running.00.getPrompt1=\r

The argument to getPrompt1 is a string to send the device that will result in the device returning the content destined for the prompt variable. Once initialized, it may be used elsewhere, as illustrated in this example:

config.running.00.getPrompt1=\r
config.running.01.send=show running-config\r
config.running.end=$prompt1$
config.running.FIND-BEGIN=Running
config.running.FIND-END=$prompt1$

config.running.01.send=config t\r
config.running.03.wait=)#
config.running.04.getPrompt1=\r
config.running.05.send=show running-config\r
config.running.08.sleep=6000
config.running.end=$prompt1$
config.running.FIND-BEGIN=configure
config.running.FIND-END=$prompt1$

The device scripts in this example determine the device prompt by sending it a carriage return, and then uses it to determine the end of config.running execution, as well as the end of the text to extract that represents the device configuration.