Use of Scripting to Identify Devices Affected by the Clock Signaling Field Notice

By now you have likely heard about the "Clock Signaling Component" issue affecting a broad range of Cisco products. If you haven't a number of Cisco products are affected by an issue that will cause them to fail during normal operation, once they fail they will stop functioning completely and can not be powered back on. You can learn more about the affected devices on the notice page. 

You are now faced with the challenge of identifying the affected systems in your environment, then deciding on an approach to replacement and coordinating RMA on the affected units before they fail. When we learned about this issue one of the first steps we took was to develop automated tooling to identify units impacted by the issue.

This article describes and gives examples of how scripts can be implemented to identify devices affected by the clock signaling field notice. Read More