One of the great benefits of using CatTools is its ability to roll out changes to multiple devices at once. A typical example of this would be to change the passwords of all of your network devices on a regular basis.

There are several ways in which to make multiple device changes like this:

To change the Enable, the Enable Secret, the VTY or the Console password you can create a Device.Update.Password activity and run this against the devices you wish to change. The benefit of using this type of activity is that as it is running it will update the CatTools database with the new password as it completes each device.

To change the Username Password you can create a Device.CLI.Modify Config activity.
Using this type of Activity against a device automatically puts you into Config Mode and your free text commands can be issued to make the necessary changes. When using this method you need to incorporate the use CatTools Meta Commands. These are commands that are intercepted by CatTools and tell it to take some kind of internal action. In this to update the database with the new password that you are assigning to the device.
For Example: In the commands text box on the Options tab of a Device.CLI.Modify Config activity you might type in the following.

username joe password fred
%ctDB:Device:AAAPassword:fred

A more detailed explanation of Meta Commands is available in the Help file .