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As it's man page says, expect  is a program that "talks" to other interactive programs according to a script.  Following the script, Expect knows what can be expected from a program and what the correct response should be.  An interpreted language provides branching  and  high-level  control structures  to  direct  the  dialogue.  In addition, the user can take control and interact directly when desired, afterward returning control to the script.

Here is a simple example, it colletcs login information on other host, it could be a host, or device which supports telnet. Same way, you can use it for ssh connection.
#!/usr/bin/expect
set timeout 20
set host "aaa.com"
set prompt "aaa: "
set user "user"
set pass "mysecret"
set cmd "who -l"

spawn telnet $host
expect "login: "
send "$user\r"
expect "Password: "
send "$pass\r"
expect "$prompt"
send "$cmd\r"
expect "$prompt"
send "exit\r"
expect "\n"

More complicated script, it checks remote server status
#!/usr/bin/expect
set timeout 9
set username [lindex $argv 0]
set password [lindex $argv 1]
set hostname [lindex $argv 2]
log_user 0

if {[llength $argv] == 0} {
  send_user "Usage: scriptname username \'password\' hostname\n"
  exit 1
}

send_user "\n#####\n# test loging to $hostname\n#####\n"

spawn ssh -q -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no $username@$hostname

expect {
  timeout { send_user "\nFailed to get password prompt\n"; exit 1 }
  eof { send_user "\nSSH failure for $hostname\n"; exit 1 }
  "*assword"
}

send "$password\r"

expect {
  timeout { send_user "\nLogin failed. Password incorrect.\n"; exit 1}
  "*\$*"
}

send_user "\nPassword is correct\n"
send "exit\r"
close

The bad part of the script is that you have to type in server's username, password and hostname. In a large installation environment, mostly all servers has ssh key setup for admin server, so easier for admin nodes to check server's status, or something else that you want.

#!/usr/bin/expect
set timeout 9
set username [lindex $argv 0]
set hostname [lindex $argv 1]
set cmd      [lindex $argv 2]
log_user 0

if {[llength $argv] == 0} {
  send_user "Usage: scriptname username  hostname\n"
  exit 1
}

send_user "\n#####\n# test loging to $hostname\n#####\n"

spawn ssh -q -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no $username@$hostname

expect {
  timeout { send_user "\nFailed to connect to the host $hostname\n"; exit 1 }
  eof { send_user "\nSSH failure for $hostname\n"; exit 1 }
  "*\$*"
}

send "$cmd\r"

expect {
  timeout { send_user "\nLogin failed. Password incorrect.\n"; exit 1}
  "*\$*"
}

send_user "\nPassword is correct\n"
send "exit\r"
close





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