RANCID-CONTENT-TYPE Reporting...

[john heasley]

Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 05:14:29AM -0700, Roderick B. Greening:
> Has anyone written a script to extract the RANCID-CONTENT-TYPE values
> (comments) from the header of the config files to provide reporting on the
> backed up inventory?
> 
> I'd like to have a record in a single file that shows what devices I have,
> versions of software, etc. I figure someone must have hacked together
> something to provide this.
> 
> Thanks.

This ought to be a simple wrapper around grep.  basically

cd ~rancid
. etc/rancid.conf
for group in $LIST_OF_GROUPS; do
 (	cd $group/configs
	for device in *
		egrep '(RANCID-CONTENT-TYPE| ...)' $device > $logfile

	...