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Hi All,
I am a newbie to network devices. I need to develop a product based on
Routers. For this product I need to display the security information
of the router like access lists set on different interfaces, etc. I
also need to know which services are enabled, disabled, etc.

Is there some thing by which I can access this information
programmatically?

Thanks for your help

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Pankaj Ankam <> wrote:
:I am a newbie to network devices. I need to develop a product based on
:Routers. For this product I need to display the security information
f the router like access lists set on different interfaces, etc. I
:also need to know which services are enabled, disabled, etc.

:Is there some thing by which I can access this information
rogrammatically?

You may have to get into 'expect' scripts and a lot of specialized
code that could break with a new software release.

The general method for getting information from routers and
similar devices is by using SNMP (Simple Network Monitoring
Protocol.) Each bit of information that can be retrieved or set
in SNMP is allocated a numeric chain of integers that together
form an "OID" (Object Identifier). There are common standardized
groupings of OIDs to meet various purposes; each such grouping is
called a 'MIB' (Management Information Base). You can find out
more about which MIBs that Cisco supports by looking at

http://www.cisco.com/go/mib

I think you will find that the contents of ACLs are seldom accessible
through MIBs.
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Oh, yeah, an African swallow maybe, but not a European swallow.
That's my point.