Scripting reboot for Cisco 300 Series switches

Question

I would like to have some help putting together a script for rebooting our 300 series POE switches. I have about 150 at this stage to administer and it would make it much easier not to have to remotely reboot them. The IP settings will be the same for each location and we have about 2-5 in each location. I will be logging in through logmein to each remote server, and will run the scripts from this to the local switches. Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

I was playing with my Indigo on an SG-500 and it seems to work.  Create a session for each switch and in the session properties for each switch enter your crendentials (user/pass) IP/port, etc, I was using telnet, port 23 for this and then under the send command tab, on connection I entered:
reload
y
One command per line up to 20 commands I believe and it connected, I saw my prompts and replies and then shutting down.
So if you try this you can just go down the file tree list for switches with cameras than need a reboot and restart the entire switch if you like, quick and easy.
You could also add a folder for each switch and a session in that folder possibly for each camera/port with online port number changing for each camera in the session properties and then selectively cycle power for just the affected cameras.
Example for port 22/camera xxxx:
conf t
int gi22 
power inline never
power inline auto
It would take a fair amount of time to set up but once done you could just pick a switch folder and the port in that switch to cycle.  If you have multiple port on a switch you could use
conf t
int range gi22-24
or 
int range gi1,6,16,20
power inline never
power inline auto
might have to verify that syntax