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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=NL style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>So, like many I’m attempting to configure RANCID for use with our Riverbed population.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=NL style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=NL style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>It mostly works...<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=NL style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>I can log in, get to enable mode and send commands etc. ( using clogin )<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=NL style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>In debug mode, the raw file shows everything exactly as I would expect. I’m processing a few commands.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=NL style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Show info, show version, show licenses, show boot, show admission, show limit bandwidth and show run.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=NL style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=NL style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>I’m not an expect / perl programmer so I’ve hacked a copy of the rancid file to just dump exactly what appears on the screen and as I said it debug mode it works perfectly.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=NL style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=NL style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>However, what its run in batchmode it always tells me its missed commands and even though when I watch the file creation, I see the “.new” file created and populated it is never saved, it enters the “missed router” process, deletes the file and starts again.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=NL style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=NL style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>I’m obviously missing setting some variables to tell either the rancid file or the clogin file that it was successful.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=NL style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=NL style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Would apprecaite any pointers.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=NL style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=NL style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>For reference I’m running RANCID and ViewVC on CentOS. However, I also have a homegrown web application thats uses wscript files ( yes, Windows ) on another server to read the configuration files of <span style='color:#1F497D'>each </span>device and import it into a SQL DB that is used to generate a basic ASPX front end. The SQL DB is also use to generate the .cloginrc / router.db files automatically from the database content. It has a few extra functions to filter by device type, region, country, location and look for CDP neihbors that do not exist in the RANCID db file etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=NL style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=NL style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Marcus<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>