Technical Note: [Accelops KB] Problem - Cisco SSH discovery fails with giving higher privileges

Summary of Article

Sometimes, customer does not want to give enable password for Cisco device discovery. Then, they give higher privilege once user authenticated. Commandline responds “#” immediately.

In this case, SSH discover does not work.

1 - Download the attached getCmdOutViaSSH.exp and upload it to AO under /opt/phoenix/bin/

2 - chown admin.admin getCmdOutViaSSH.exp

3 - chmod a+x getCmdOutViaSSH.exp

This modified script allows to skip sending enable password.