topic Re: ACLI Terminal as console application for GNS3 in General Discussion

ACLI Terminal as console application for GNS3

tv — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 14:32:28 GMT

Hi,

I'm becoming a big fan of @Ludovico_Steven's ACLI Terminal, and I'm wondering if anyone has managed to use it as the telnet console application in GNS3.

I've been trying with "C:\Users\<myuser>\AppData\Local\Programs\ACLI\Perl\bin\perl.exe C:\Users\<myuser>\AppData\Local\Programs\ACLI\acli.pl %h %p", tried with and without quotes, but no luck so far. Opening this path using Start > Run, while replacing %h with the GNS3VM IP and %p with the telnet port does work. Even better would be to open it directly in ConsoleZ instead of the Windows terminal.

Thanks!

Re: ACLI Terminal as console application for GNS3

Didier_Ducarre — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 18:02:23 GMT

I am a big fan as well and adapt the following with ACLI installation path (/usr/share/acli in my case), use

gnome-terminal -t %d -- /usr/share/acli/acli.pl -p %h %p

Re: ACLI Terminal as console application for GNS3

Didier_Ducarre — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 18:17:53 GMT

What I would advise is to use ACLI in a different way, I left default for console but I create for each project a script using console port ID from gns3, here is an example:

dducarre@linux-gns3:~$ cat acli-gns3-3nodes
#/bin/sh

/usr/bin/gnome-terminal --tab -t "VSP-A" -- /usr/share/acli/acli.pl -n localhost 5020
/usr/bin/gnome-terminal --tab -t "VSP-B" -- /usr/share/acli/acli.pl -n localhost 5000
/usr/bin/gnome-terminal --tab -t "VSP-C" -- /usr/share/acli/acli.pl -n localhost 5008
/usr/bin/gnome-terminal --tab -t "ipterm-1" -- /usr/share/acli/acli.pl -n localhost 5016
/usr/bin/gnome-terminal --tab -t "ipterm-2" -- /usr/share/acli/acli.pl -n localhost 5018
/usr/bin/gnome-terminal --tab -t "VSP-1" -- /usr/share/acli/acli.pl -n localhost 5010
/usr/bin/gnome-terminal --tab -t "VSP-2" -- /usr/share/acli/acli.pl -n localhost 5012
/usr/bin/gnome-terminal --tab -t "VSP-3" -- /usr/share/acli/acli.pl -n localhost 5014

Then I login manually and use <CTRL>-T to use interactive mode. Most of the time console generates hidden characters which confuse automatic ACLI login.

Re: ACLI Terminal as console application for GNS3

tv — Sun, 26 Mar 2023 20:18:05 GMT

Thanks for your replies Didier, using a shell/batch script to launch all terminal tabs is a good alternative indeed.