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Hi All,

I'm currently new to scripting and would want to ask for your assistance/suggestions. I have created a script that would ping a certain IP Address or Hostname that is entered by the User. After the ping finishes the script would prompt the user if they want to login to the node.

Here's were my problem comes in. The IP Address or Hostname could be a Cisco Router or a Linux/Solaris box. I want the script to try and Telnet to the IP or Host and it fails try to ssh on it. I'm guessing that the script would base it decision on the error messages it receives when trying to perform a telnet or ssh. I don't know how to do this and any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Error Message:
-bash-3.00$ ssh 10.10.30.11
ssh: connect to host 10.10.30.11 port 22: Connection refused

-bash-3.00$ telnet 10.10.80.184
Trying 10.10.80.184...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
-bash-3.00$

Here is script.

#!/bin/bash
clear
echo "Date Started `date`"
echo Enter IP
read IP
ssh user@10.10.82.55 ping -sn $IP 56 10
sleep 1
echo "Date Finished `date`"
echo " The End! "
while :
do
echo "Login to Host?"
echo "1. To Login to Node"
echo "2. To go back to Menu"
echo -n "Enter your choice [1 or 2]"
read userchoice
case $userchoice in
1) telnet $IP
exit
read ;;
2) echo "Going back to Menu"
exit
read ;;
*) echo "Not a valid choice"
exit
esac
done


Thanks in advance.[code][/code]

Found out a way to accomplish this. I created a loop within a loop. But it seems that i'm encountering problems as i go along.

Here's the update working script.




Since the script is based on loops, how can i exit the loop if the initial ping fails? With this script if the ping fails it continues to the first loop. Any advice / suggestions?

Thanks.

If you know the IP is a "correct" one then you can use ping.


This will ping the host 1 time and then exit. If the reply was not found it returns a errorcode ($? is greater then 0).



If you wish to store the output just redirect the script output (./script.sh > output.txt).

Best regards
Fredrik Eriksson