[rancid] Re: New device on .cloginrc

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[rancid] patch for mrvrancid

Hi,

We recently started using rancid with some MRV LambdaDriver 800P.

Using the 'mrv' in rancid works great, it pulls the configs down etc but we were being mailed for diffs in a
couple of things that wernt really changing.  voltages, temprature and uptime.

The attached patch skips these during the diff so you dont hear about them changing on every run.

Could you add this to rancid?

Cheers
Ben

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[rancid] Re: Rancid support for Brocade switches

Hi

Was there ever a copy of this script released?

Thanks

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Subject: [rancid] Re: Rancid support for Brocade switches

Absolutely, its really holding thing back.
Thanks

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Subject: [rancid]   Re: Rancid support for Brocade switches

Hi,

Tue Jan 26 22:12:55 UTC 2010 nmaio <at> guesswho.com wrote:
> Yes I did but I modified a script do just do a cfgshow and
> configshow.  Would you like a copy?
> It only works with OS versions that don't paginate the output.

I'm interested too. Would it be possible to share your copy
with this list?

THNX && GRTNX,
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[rancid] Not working rancid with Cisco without enable.

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[rancid] Modify rancid scripts to enter on Cisco devices level 7 (enable 7 command)

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[rancid] Re: changes in <group> routers

Hi John

It seems that I've deleted the source for Rancid at some point.  Would there be any other place that this would
be set? Somewhere in the Rancid etc or var folder maybe?

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From: john heasley [mailto:heas <at> shrubbery.net] 
Sent: 28 May 2010 22:54
To: Steve Ousley
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Subject: Re: [rancid] changes in <group> routers

Fri, May 28, 2010 at 01:43:48PM +0100, Steve Ousley:
> What I did notice was that there was an email generated for each group stating a list of routers who's status
had changed to down, the list, however, consisted of no routers.
> 
> I thought this was maybe an oddity as it was the first run of rancid since the update, so ignored it.
> 
> Now, after it's scheduled run, I get the email again.
> 
> Literally the entire contents of the email is:
> 
> 
> "Routers changed to down:"
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas why seemingly the upgrade to Lenny could have caused this?

this is most likely the configure script or the PATH in rancid.conf winding-up
with arguments for diff that it doesnt like.  see DIFF_CMD in the config.status
file that was generated by configure.
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[rancid] Re: Modify rancid scripts to enter on Cisco devices level 7 (enable 7 command)

Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 09:56:21AM +0200, Julian Salmeron:
> I have a strange situation with a Cisco device where I have to login as
> normal user , then type the "enable 7" command to enter in level 7 and then
> type "show startup config" instead of "show running config".
> So I have to modify some of the rancid scripts (clogin, rancid and maybe
> some more), and that's my problem...I don't know how to do that and I'm not
> sure which scripts I have to modify.

clogin/*login does not have a way to alter the enable command.  afaik, other
commands will fail at lower privilege levels, so i'm not inclined to add the
feature now.

you'd have to create a clogin, rancid, and device type with new names;
example, clogin7, rancid7, cisco7 (rancid-fe script).  change rancid7
to use clogin7, change clogin7 to use the right enable command, add the
cisco7 type to rancid-fe, and change your router.db for the device to be
the cisco7 device type.

> (Sorry for my poor English, I'm Spanish and my English is a bit strong) :P

your english is fine.
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[rancid] Re: Modify rancid scripts to enter on Cisco devices level 7 (enable 7 command)

On Wed, 9 Jun 2010, john heasley wrote:

> Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 09:56:21AM +0200, Julian Salmeron:
> > I have a strange situation with a Cisco device where I have to login as
> > normal user , then type the "enable 7" command to enter in level 7 and then
> > type "show startup config" instead of "show running config".
> > So I have to modify some of the rancid scripts (clogin, rancid and maybe
> > some more), and that's my problem...I don't know how to do that and I'm not
> > sure which scripts I have to modify.
> 
> clogin/*login does not have a way to alter the enable command.  afaik, 
> other commands will fail at lower privilege levels, so i'm not inclined 
> to add the feature now.

That's true; I also needed the feature for some 3Com/H3C gear which 
doesn't use "enable".  I wasn't inclined to add the feature either, but I 
did make it slightly easier for myself in case I ever did; I simply:

    set enacmd "system-view"

then later:

    send "$enacmd\r"

If the facility to change it ever gets added in via .cloginrc, I at least 
had part of the framework there, and in the meantime it reminds me to 
think about it again every so often.

Jethro.

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[rancid] Re: Modify rancid scripts to enter on Cisco devices level 7 (enable 7 command)

Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 08:57:03PM +0100, Jethro R Binks:
> On Wed, 9 Jun 2010, john heasley wrote:
> 
> > Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 09:56:21AM +0200, Julian Salmeron:
> > > I have a strange situation with a Cisco device where I have to login as
> > > normal user , then type the "enable 7" command to enter in level 7 and then
> > > type "show startup config" instead of "show running config".
> > > So I have to modify some of the rancid scripts (clogin, rancid and maybe
> > > some more), and that's my problem...I don't know how to do that and I'm not
> > > sure which scripts I have to modify.
> > 
> > clogin/*login does not have a way to alter the enable command.  afaik, 
> > other commands will fail at lower privilege levels, so i'm not inclined 
> > to add the feature now.
> 
> That's true; I also needed the feature for some 3Com/H3C gear which 
> doesn't use "enable".  I wasn't inclined to add the feature either, but I 
> did make it slightly easier for myself in case I ever did; I simply:
> 
>     set enacmd "system-view"
> 
> then later:
> 
>     send "$enacmd\r"
> 
> If the facility to change it ever gets added in via .cloginrc, I at least 
> had part of the framework there, and in the meantime it reminds me to 
> think about it again every so often.

i'd have created a separate script for that one, especially because its a
3com.  yes, i won't hide my disdain for 3com.

but, 'enablecmd' is what i was thinking about.  however, because folks
would be inclined to do things like julian is, it affects authorization
for other commands and quickly becomes far more complicated.
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[rancid] Re: Modify rancid scripts to enter on Cisco devices level 7 (enable 7 command)

On Wed, 9 Jun 2010, john heasley wrote:

> > If the facility to change it ever gets added in via .cloginrc, I at least 
> > had part of the framework there, and in the meantime it reminds me to 
> > think about it again every so often.
> 
> i'd have created a separate script for that one, especially because its a
> 3com.  yes, i won't hide my disdain for 3com.

:)  But I did: h3clogin.  That's where I put the simple framework, Just In 
Case.

> but, 'enablecmd' is what i was thinking about.  however, because folks 
> would be inclined to do things like julian is, it affects authorization 
> for other commands and quickly becomes far more complicated.

I was just thinking about the general case of "a device where the enable 
command isn't literally 'enable'", rather than Julian's more specialised 
case where he is specifying a particular priv level, but you are correct 
that in that case it can get complicated.

As it happens, my rancid logs into a ASA/PIX with a user of lower priv 
level; I did have to make some of the commands available to the lower priv 
level.

My 'framework', such as it was, was really an example of my continuing 
view (mentioned before) that the more system-specific detail can be 
abstracted out from the scripts themselves, then the less different the 
scripts become.  It then becomes much easier to:

1. abstract common functions out from the scripts;

2. make updates to general functionality across all the scripts;

3. write a script for a new device, concentrating on just the stuff that 
really is different rather than trying to cobble something together 
comparing different scripts for other different devices

Obviously some devices really are quite different, or pernikity, but if 
you can abstract even the simple things like "what's the command to run to 
get to privileged mode", and "how do i turn off paging" to the clogin 
level, or a simple config file listing the vendors and the equivalent 
commands, then you might get some way down that road.  
Net::Appliance::Session attempts to do something like this, by the use of 
vendor-specific 'phrasebooks', e.g.:

http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/OLIVER/Net-Appliance-Phrasebook-1.8/lib/Net/Appliance/Phrasebook/nas-pb.yml

Jethro.

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