#!/bin/bash rsh x.x.x.x sh access-list 102 | grep icmp | grep matches | grep x.x.x.x | awk ' { print $8 }' | sed s/\(// echo "0" #The first line will rsh into the router and display access-list number 102 (this will change depending on your config), it will grep the access-list entry type in this case 'icmp', it will also grep the ip of the machine in question, and output the relevant information. Eg: 10 0 10 = the number of times the ACL has matched. Remember you can change this to whatever you want.