Omapi, Just Getting Started

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John Hascall writes:
>Are you sure you are specifying the server name on the
command line?
>It seems to want that:

	Yes.  If you don't, it complains.  I also failed to
include
that I had tried it both on a system remote from the dhcp
server and
on the actual platform where the dhcp server runs and it
behaves the
same way.

>> server $1
>
>John
>PS, "cat << EOF |omshell" is wierd,
"omshell <<EOF" would be preferred"

	Agreed.  They work the same way, but "omshell
<<EOF" is a bit
more standard.

	I have come up with an expect script that pretends to
manually
invoke omshell, making it a little easier to see where
trouble starts
and it appears that I am not issuing the correct command
after sending
the key.  A modified output follows:

$ omshell
> server 192.168.1.20
> port 7911
> key OMAPI "SECRET_BASE64_STUFF"
> connect
obj: <null>

	There's where things get confusing.  I did a Google search
using

omapi+examin+dhcp+lease

as search criteria.  It netted 14 hits, none of which
contained
so much as a scrap of linear "The cat ate the
canary." information,
the kind that takes 3 or 4 lines to print and teaches one
more than 40
pages of theory or at least makes the 40 pages of theory go
down a lot
easier.

Martin McCormick WB5AGZ  Stillwater, OK 
Systems Engineer
OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations
Group

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