I'm trying to automate the task of changing settings on 100+ power appliances via SSH but each settings change has multiple interactive prompts. Is this possible or does anyone have an example of how to do this with Python/bash script?
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I'm trying to automate the task of changing settings on 100+ power appliances via SSH but each settings change has multiple interactive prompts. Is this possible or does anyone have an example of how to do this with Python/bash script?
Look into expect. Alternative implementations for other languages and systems than Tcl exist (e.g. pexpect for Python or the Ansible expect module).
For 100s of devices, I would particularly look into the Ansible module (I am sure similar modules exist for other systems like salt or chef).
The cloud-generation answer to your question is a programmer-friendly REST API over HTTPS, which your appliances do not seem to have.
The canonical decades-old answer to your question is expect. There is a learning curve there, which may not be worth it when comparing to writing a custom python script, especially if you already know python or if you might want someone else to maintain it in the future.
Between the two, I suspect that writing your custom python script will be the least bad solution, unless some other friendly person here has knowledge of a tool that has escaped my notice.