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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">My rancid hasn’t been updated in a while, but it should be mostly similar, still<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">There’s a WriteTerm subroutine that is responsible for processing the show running-config execution. Looks under
there for something like:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> # some versions have other crap mixed in with the bits in the<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> /^! (Last configuration|NVRAM config last)/ && next;<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">You could just modify that line and add between the t of last and the closing ‘)’, ”|^Time: “) (without the quotes)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Or add another line under:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"># Dog gone Cool matches to process the rest of the config<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">You may have to adjust for spaces or indentation in the output.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";font-weight:bold">From:</span></font></b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">
Pete Boynton [mailto:boynton.pete@gmail.com] <br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, October 17, 2012 11:51 AM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> Hughes, Doug<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Cc:</span></b> rancid-discuss@shrubbery.net<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: [rancid] RANCID pulls hourly diff off NEXUS 5500 despite no changes<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">OK then this happens during the show running config section<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 11:10 AM, Hughes, Doug <<a href="mailto:Douglas.Hughes@deshawresearch.com" target="_blank">Douglas.Hughes@deshawresearch.com</a>>
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<font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">You should have lines beginning with a prefix around it..</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Like !Flash: or !BootFlash: or !Image: or something like that…</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";font-weight:bold">From:</span></font></b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Pete Boynton [mailto:<a href="mailto:boynton.pete@gmail.com" target="_blank">boynton.pete@gmail.com</a>]
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<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, October 17, 2012 11:08 AM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> Hughes, Doug<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Cc:</span></b> <a href="mailto:rancid-discuss@shrubbery.net" target="_blank">
rancid-discuss@shrubbery.net</a><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: [rancid] RANCID pulls hourly diff off NEXUS 5500 despite no changes</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Doug,<br>
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Thanks for the quick reply. I am pretty much a RANCID newbie but I want to answer your question:<br>
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Which section does it occur in?</span></font><br>
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How could I find out what section this is happening.<br>
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Thanks<br>
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<o:p></o:p></p>
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<font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Hughes, Doug <<a href="mailto:Douglas.Hughes@deshawresearch.com" target="_blank">Douglas.Hughes@deshawresearch.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> Is it part of Show Ver or other? If you go into that section in the rancid file you can add a regex match to discard Time:</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">For instance, go to sub ShowVersion</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Scroll down and you’ll see a ton of regular expressions.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Add a new one like this:</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"># ignore time changes to avoid hourly spam</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">/^Time: / && next;</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Put that line in whatever section is generating the annoying timestamp.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";font-weight:bold">From:</span></font></b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">
<a href="mailto:rancid-discuss-bounces@shrubbery.net" target="_blank">rancid-discuss-bounces@shrubbery.net</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:rancid-discuss-bounces@shrubbery.net" target="_blank">rancid-discuss-bounces@shrubbery.net</a>]
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">On Behalf Of </span></b>Pete Boynton<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, October 17, 2012 9:50 AM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> <a href="mailto:rancid-discuss@shrubbery.net" target="_blank">
rancid-discuss@shrubbery.net</a><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> [rancid] RANCID pulls hourly diff off NEXUS 5500 despite no changes</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Hello,<br>
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We are running version of 2.3.8 of RANCID. The problem we are having is that every hour RANCID detects a change in the config and so it posts a new page even though no chance has occurred. It detects the line:<br>
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!Time: Wed Oct 17 06:00:06 2012<br>
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has changed from the hour before, so I guess technically a change has occurred and RANCID is doing what it was designed to do. However we are getting spammed with versions that really don't tell us when an important change has been made. This is only a problem
on the NEXUS switches. Everything else works fine.<br>
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Question:<br>
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1. Is there a way to tell RANCID to ignore the line that begins with !Time?<br>
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Thanks for any help you can give<br>
<br>
Pedro <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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