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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’ve been playing with rancid and with the scripts for ciscowlc that have been posted to this list. There was a major variant posted at
<a href="http://www.shrubbery.net/pipermail/rancid-discuss/2012-March/006276.html">
http://www.shrubbery.net/pipermail/rancid-discuss/2012-March/006276.html</a>, however I’ve been working with the “mainstream” scripts which I found most recently at
<a href="http://www.shrubbery.net/pipermail/rancid-discuss/2013-July/006971.html">
http://www.shrubbery.net/pipermail/rancid-discuss/2013-July/006971.html</a> The only variations I’ve found in the main line are:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">wlogin: control paging with set length0/term length 0, vs. config paging disable<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">ciscowlc: show running-config, vs. show run-config commands<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Since the second option in each script seems to work on our device, I’ve opted to use those. Our device is running software version 7.0.220.0.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">About the only other wrinkle I found was that I had to “add autoenable <device> 1” for the device within the .cloginrc.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Now wlogin works fine, and rancid-run completes successfully. But I’m not sure the archived configuration is really usable as-is for restoring the configuration. When I compare it to the file I get when I upload the config via tftp, I see:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">tftp’d file uses “config” for each line (this is trivial)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">a number of configuration lines in the tftp’d file don’t seem to have an exact equivalent<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">a few odd lines appear in the rancid config archive such as:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">“Not supported”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“Max no. of clients 0Max no. of clients 0Max no. of clients 0”<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’ve verified that these differences are from the output of “show run-config commands.” I.e., it’s Cisco’s fault.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">But I’m wondering if the archived config produced by rancid is something I can trust as an actual backup. Has anyone tried restoring the config from rancid?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I wonder if I might be better off having rancid trigger tftp (ftp, sftp, etc.) and then grab the file. This page has some ideas that might be incorporated:
<a href="http://networkengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/3246/is-there-an-automatable-way-to-backup-the-configuration-from-a-wlc-2504-controll">
http://networkengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/3246/is-there-an-automatable-way-to-backup-the-configuration-from-a-wlc-2504-controll</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thoughts?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">--<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Elliot Wilen<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sr. System Administrator<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Aechelon Technology<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">E-Mail: elliot.wilen@aechelon.com<o:p></o:p></p>
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