A while ago one of my readers wanted to perform an extended ping from an EEM applet. For whatever reason the extended ping syntax wasn’t good enough for him, so I told him to use the pattern parameter of the action cli command EEM applet statement.

Here’s the final result … ugly, but working:

event manager applet ping
 event none sync yes
 action 100 cli command "enable"
 action 101 cli command "ping" pattern "[ip]"
 action 102 cli command "ip" pattern "address"
 action 103 cli command "10.10.10.10" pattern "count"
 action 104 cli command "5" pattern "size"
 action 105 cli command "100" pattern "seconds"
 action 106 cli command "2" pattern "commands"
 action 107 cli command "y" pattern "interface"
 action 108 cli command "20.20.20.20" pattern "service"
 action 109 cli command "0" pattern "header"
 action 110 cli command "no" pattern "data"
 action 111 cli command "no" pattern "pattern"
 action 112 cli command "0xABCD" pattern "Verbose"
 action 113 cli command " " pattern "size"
 action 114 cli command "n"