Automating FC SAN failover using pexpect

The code is on github and is fairly straight forward. One of these days I'll figure out how to do this using SMI-S or other XML magic pixie dust. The Cisco MDS is a little obnoxious in that it requires you to entire config mode to toggle vsans. The switch is already configured for pubkey authentication. Here it is in action,

ppetraki@mark21:~/Sandbox/cisco-automation$ ./cisco_pexpect.py 
logging in...
logged in
entered config mode
enable both vsans, wait 30 secs
disable vsan 10, wait 60 secs
enable vsan 10
exit config mode
exit fc switch
terminated True

In a separate window I have 'watch -d multipath -ll' on the client and confirm during the 60 sec sleep that the path group did indeed go out of service and then return.

$ git clone git://github.com/ppetraki/cisco-fc-failover.git

and enjoy!