[rancid] Re: Rancid and a database?

[Bruno Prigent]

A guy in my company wrote perl scripts to parse the rancid CVS and 
rancid diff received by email. I don't think those scripts are available 
to public.

I guess the main problem is that the script has to know the grammar of 
every devices type (cisco, juniper, etc). If the constructor decide to 
change the command or implement a command in different ways within 
different devices, you have to modify the script.

For inventory (device name, device type, IOS) I use grep/sed/awk when I 
need it but I think it's not really reliable. Keep me updated if you 
plan to work on something.

Bruno

Freeman, Michael wrote:
>  Has anyone thought of storing the information rancid collects in a
> database? I'm mostly interested in Rancid's ability to parse through the
> /show diag/ and /show version/ commands on devices and using that data
> to generate asset/inventory reports. 
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