Ping from switch

[sporkman]

As part of our management setup, I have our web interface able to ping various devices from other devices (ie: ping something directly attached to one router, switch, etc.). On the Cisco side, I just shell out and call "clogin" (from the rancid package: http://www.shrubbery.net/rancid/) and read in the results of the command.

I suspect I'll do something similar with the netonix switches, but while I'm planning, I wanted to check if ssh-ing in and running ping is the best option on the platform or if there's some other neat way to do it (REST via https, SNMP, etc.).

[sirhc]

you have to decide what you want to to as far SNMP or what have you.

But as far as SSH into the switch and executing command you can SSH into the switch then drop to Linux shell with the "cmd" command and run regular Linux commands then enter "exit" and go back to our SSH interface