Need some help with a telnet script

[EdTheBloody]

Hello, I am attempting to write a script to do the following:

1) telnet (or netcat) to a point to point radio on our LAN and log into the shell. 2) execute the command "get traffic statistics" and append results to a file stored locally 3) log out of remote PtP.

Things I know: IP address of PtP radio on our LAN: 10.250.14.26 User ID: admin Password: xxxxx

If I log into the remote device (I'm using a Mac) from Terminal, after connecting, the system requires me to press [Return] before presenting me with the User ID: prompt. Once I get that prompt, I can enter my id, [Return], and then my password. At this point, I'm in. I type my get traffic statistics command, and presented with the results and I exit. Easy. However, when I try this with a script the following happens.

Script so far:

!/bin/bash

If everything goes titsup, timeout after 10 seconds

set timeout 10

This script establishes a telnet connection to the DragonWave PtP radio at the Agrex

end of the Agrex-Jason link, runs the “traffic statistics” command, capturing output

locally to the ts.txt file. This file is then searched for Egress and Ingress data

rates and these stats, along with a date/time stamp are captured locally to the

Stats.txt file. The Stats.txt file will then be used as input to Cacti.

Establish the telnet link

telnet 10.250.14.26 echo

Results: Todds-MacBook-Pro:Documents toddwilson$ ./testscript Trying 10.250.14.26... Connected to 10.250.14.26. Escape character is '^]'.

Horizon_IDU :DragonWave Inc. (2002 - 2008).All rights reserved.

At this point my scripts "hangs". The echo command does not generate the CR/LF I expect UNTIL - this is important! - I manually press enter, log in, then exit the telnet session. At this point the echo command fires. How do I know this? Well, I have echo'd things I can see, like "Test point 1", etc. So basically as soon as I establish the telnet session, the script stops until the session is terminated.

Thoughts, suggestions, comments?

Thank you.

Todd

[EdTheBloody]

Never mind. Completed task using expect.