Creating Ciscoworks Groups Programatically

anthony-johnston · ‎03-20-2009

Hi,

The title says it all - I have about 5000+ switches and routers which I need to place into about 1200 groups. If I used the GUI it would take forever to do this so I was wondering if there was a way to do it programatically? I can use the device name to identify which group to assign it to.

akemp · ‎03-20-2009

There's only one problem, Ciscoworks doesn't support 1200 groups, a closer number to reason would be 100 groups.

With that said, you can automatically assign devices to group based on their attributes like:

IP address

Device.ManagementIpAddress range "10.[96-118].[0-255].[0-255]"

hostname

Device.DisplayName contains "bubba"

device model

Device.Model equals "2948"

what organization it belongs to

Device.DomainName endswith "bubba.org"

and so on , there are 14 fields that you can parse combine or discriminate with using Boolean operators AND OR EXCLUDE. Thee of the fields are user definable.

anthony-johnston · ‎03-20-2009

Hi Thanks for the reply.

I wasn't aware of the 100 group limitation which seems rather low. I was aware of the flexbility of group creation using the GUI but I thought that with the cwcli interface or something equivalent I might be able to script it