Scripts

In the System provisioning toolbar, select Scripts.

The following window is displayed:

The window displays the following input fields:

Appliance: list of all the Appliances for the Customer
Script: list of the available scripts. These scripts are in the directory ~/ipboss/server/scripts
Command buttons:

(Select all): selects all the Appliances

(Launch): to launch the script on all the selected Appliances. A confirmation window is displayed: click OK. Depending on the number of selected Appliances, a message informs you that it may take a long time... .

(Refresh): refreshes the view

(Help): opens a contextual Help window

The Execution script result frame displays the scripts being launched, and allows downloading and deleting them:

Result table fields:
Date: when the scripts were launched
Script: name of the scripts that were launched
Appliance(s): Appliances that ran the scripts
Command buttons:

(Select all): selects all the script results

(Delete): deletes the selected script results (the data will be deleted from the server)

(Download script result): allows downloading a zip file with the selected script results and other information (see below)

(Refresh): refreshes the view

The zip file that can be downloaded is called ExecutionScriptResult.zip and has the following structure:

root: one <yymmdd-hhmm> folder by selected script result, where yymmdd-hhmm are the date and time when the scripts were launched.

The root folder has three subfolders, containing five files:

ipboss:

__active__.ipmconf: current configuration at the Customer level

ip_boss_00<X>.log: log file at the Customer level

ipengines:

<alias><ip|e's IP address>.ipmres: script result in itself

script:

<script name>.ipmscp: launched script (encrypted file)

ipengine.txt: list of dumped Appliances (alias+@ip)

The user can send this zip file (by E-mail or FTP) to Extreme Networks Support.

Different script files are available. The main ones are :

default: dumps information from the Appliance,
flows: dumps all the flows crossing the Appliance,
check_visibility: dumps information about the Application Visibility agent,
check_control: dumps information about the Application Control agent,
check_compression: dumps information about the Compression agent,
check_dynamic_wan_selection: dumps information about the Dynamic WAN Selection agent,
check_itp: dumps information about the Time synchronization agent,
check_sdwan: dumps information about the SD-WAN agent,
restart_visibility: restarts the Application Visibility agent,
restart_control: restarts the Application Control agent,
restart_compression: restarts the Compression agent,
restart_itp: restarts the Time synchronization agent,
process: dumps information about the running processes.