[rancid] Re: Rancid and a database?

[Freeman, Michael]

Bruno,

I don't think there is any way to get around the problem of the commands
or output changing, so that wouldn't be a new challenge for Rancid. I
don't think I want to parse any CVS information, in fact I'm not even
interested in storing anything in CVS/SVN at this point, probably just
hacking up the routines in the rancid cisco parsing modules to store
data filtered out through the regular expressions and store in a DB
using DBIx::Class.

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Subject: [rancid] Re: Rancid and a database?

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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