Activities

Connect to Cisco Iron Port

Connects to a given Cisco Iron Port CLI.

The Connect to Cisco Iron Port activity parameters can be provided by manual inserted values or via IN arguments or variables:

Parameters:

Host Name / IP Address (text box editor type) (type: string): enter the DNS name or the IP address for the Cisco Iron Port CLI. The factory default is 192.168.42.42
Password (text box editor type) (type: string): enter the password for the provided username in order to connect to Cisco Iron Port
Password Binding (text box editor type) (type: string): bind to a variable containing the encrypted password for the Cisco Iron Port host. This parameter is used only when the user wants to send an encrypted password from outside the task, for example from Flowster Studio Portal
SSH Port (text box editor type) (type: int32): enter the SSH port for connection. The default value is 22
SSH Timeout (text box editor type) (type: int32): enter the SSH timeout. The default is 60 seconds
Username (text box editor type) (type: string): enter the username which would connect to Cisco Iron Port

The Read Only Output variable are the possible output values that the activity will provide:

Disconnects from a given Cisco Iron Port CLI.

The Disconnect to Cisco Iron Port activity parameters can be provided by manual inserted values or via IN arguments or variables:

Parameters:

Connection (text box editor type) (type: object): the connection from the Connect to Cisco Iron Port activity

The Read Only Output variable are the possible output values that the activity will provide:

Output (type: boolean): outputs the status of the disconnect operation (True if successfully made, otherwise False).

Executes Cisco Iron Port commands which are supporting Batch formats, through SSH.

The Run Batch Commands activity parameters can be provided by manual inserted values or via IN arguments or variables:

Parameters:

Command Script (text box editor type) (type: string): enter the CLI batch format of the command which needs to be executed. Here are 2 examples of batch commands:
- diagnostic network arpshow: show the contents of the ARP cache
- listenerconfig edit IncomingMail hostaccess new sendergroup REDLIST possible_spammer.com Policy: "THROTTLED": the sender group POLICY is created, then it is associated with the THROTTLED policy and the sender "possible_spammer.com" is added to the sender group
Connection (text box editor type) (type: object): the connection from the Connect to Cisco Iron Port activity

The Read Only Output variable are the possible output values that the activity will provide:

Executes Cisco Iron Port stream of commands remotely, through SSH. This activity is useful for commands which require user input or commit.

The Run Stream Commands activity parameters can be provided by manual inserted values or via IN arguments or variables:

Parameters:

Commands (text box editor type) (type: string): enter the CLI commands which needs to be executed. Enter each command on a separate new line, along with the commit and other user input. Here is one example of stream commands:
settz America/Los_Angeles
commit test
settz
- the above example first sets the timezone to America/Los Angeles, sends commit and then it displays the current timezone
Connection (text box editor type) (type: object): the connection from the Connect to Cisco Iron Port activity
Expected String (text box editor type) (type: string): enter the teletype expected character. For example, the Iron Port's default is >

The Read Only Output variable are the possible output values that the activity will provide: