The CLI Gateway

The CLIGW enables management of data and telecom equipment via various character based protocols and currently supports telnet, rlogin, http, https, ssh and tcp (raw tcp/ip).

The primary purpose of the CLI Gateway is to enable automated and script based management access to Telecom and Datacom equipment supporting man-machine type of interfaces, like for example the Cisco CLI language. As such the CLIGW provides a semi-generic approach to the management of ASCII based interfaces by offering.

• Unified Common Script API for access to equipment via Telnet, rlogin, ssh, http, https and raw TCP/IP

• Automatic login/profile management of telnet/rlogin sessions

• Reuse of sessions across operations

• Extensive use of threads eliminating need for child processes

• Full access to all Q3ADE features via LMIF (Q3ADE's script language)

The core functionality of the CLIGW offers a LMIF API, which allows the application programmer to open sessions to remote devices and to maintain dialogs with the remote devices. In addition the CLIGW offers a message-based socket like API, which allows for the execution of session dialogs in separate threads.

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