Meta Variables

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Several Activities allow you to enter a list of commands which will be issued to your selected devices.

Device.CLI.Send commands, Device.CLI.Modify Config and Device.Update.Banner are examples of these activities.

Within the commands you send, you can include a number of CatTools Meta Data variables that will be translated when the Activity is run.

Example: In the Device.Update.Banner Activity you could could set the following text and apply it to all your devices.
Hello, I am %ctDeviceName. Contact %ctContactName on %ctContactPhone to gain access to me.

Below is a table of the variables available.

Variable	Value
%ctDeviceName	The device name
%ctGroupName	The device group name
%ctHostName	The device host address
%ctModel	The device model field
%ctAddress1	The device Address1 field
%ctAddress2	The device Address2 field
%ctAddress3	The device Address3 field
%ctContactName	The device Contact name field
%ctContactPhone	The device Contact phone field
%ctContactEmail	The device Contact email field
%ctTimeHHMM	current time in HHMM format
%ctDateISO	current date in YYYYMMDD format
%ctBaseFile	device base file name
%ctAppPath	file system path of the CatTools executable including a trailing "\"
%ctCR	carriage return
%ctLF	line feed
%ctTAB	tab
%ctCtrlZ	control key & Z. Normally used to exit config mode.

NB: The variable names are case sensitive and must be entered as shown.