EEM

owensgl · ‎08-20-2009

Does anyone have any EEM stories that are good and bad experiences? I am thinking about implementing EEM and i don't know much about it yet.

Collin Clark · ‎08-20-2009

I love it. My only complaint is that I don't know TCL well enough to write more scripts. My favorite is one that will email the config when I make a change in a router (at my client sites). They can see what I've done and they always have the latest copy of the config.

Joe Clarke · ‎08-20-2009

This is what the upcoming EASy initiative aims to solve. We want to start a program where by customers can provide us with ideas, and we can code them, document them, and create videos on how to deploy/use them. We already have a few seed use cases in the works for when we go live.

In the meantime, if you need help with Tcl, just ask on the Network Management forum, and I can help you out.

Joe Clarke · ‎08-20-2009

It's one of my primary focus areas, and I think it's an extremely useful and powerful feature. We're expanding EEM all the time. Currently, we offer a repository of useful Cisco and customer-contributed scripts at http://www.cisco.com/go/ciscobeyond/ . We will be starting a new project soon called EASy to offer well-documented, well-tested EEM packages to solve common use cases.

We also have partners getting into things. Nidus Software has created an EEM IDE called IDEEM which is available from http://www.nidussoft.com.

If you do decide to use EEM, checkout the Network Management NetPro forum for some examples I have provided customers. And if you need help building your scripts, feel free to ask your questions there as well.