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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Chris,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> If it is not what Ron suggested, there is also the downreport script, which sends summary emails of the state of your router.db files.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Eric<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> rancid-discuss-bounces@shrubbery.net [mailto:rancid-discuss-bounces@shrubbery.net] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Ron Whitney<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, April 18, 2011 1:42 PM<br><b>To:</b> rancid-discuss@shrubbery.net<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [rancid] Rancid Emails on Downed Hosts<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Assuming that I understand the question correctly, RANCID will e-mail that info to 'rancid-<groupname>' on the local machine. You then define the 'rancid-<groupname>' alias in /etc/aliases and define who should receive the e-mails.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Example:</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>You've added devices to a group called CompanyA. RANCID will send the e-mail to thel address of 'rancid-CompanyA' on the local machine. Within /etc/aliases, you might have a line such as:</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>rancid-CompanyA <a href="mailto:ron@example.com">ron@example.com</a></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Note: This is a very simple example as I applied it to an older version of RANCID. Caveat emptor.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Ron Whitney</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br>Network Administrator<br><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red'>Do it Best Corp.</span></strong> | 6502 Nelson Road | Fort Wayne, IN 46803<br>260.748.5657 (direct) | 260.748.5623 (fax) </span><o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt;margin-left:3.75pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>-----Original Message-----<br><b>From:</b> rancid-discuss-bounces@shrubbery.net [mailto:rancid-discuss-bounces@shrubbery.net] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Chris Kilian<br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, April 17, 2011 19:14<br><b>To:</b> rancid-discuss@shrubbery.net<br><b>Subject:</b> [rancid] Rancid Emails on Downed Hosts</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'> Guys<br><br>Where is that you set Rancid to email a list of routers etc that it cant get the config for? I know it can be done and just cant find for the life of me where this is, had a look in the rancid.conf file and cant see anything obvious in there<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></blockquote></div></body></html>