[rancid] Re: Gathering Cisco MDS configurations

[Eric Cables]

Excellent, that did the trick.  I hope this makes it into the next rancid
release.

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Michael Stefaniuc <mstefani at redhat.com>
wrote:

> Eric Cables wrote:
> > I have sent a couple of e-mails in the past about this topic, and gotten
> > some replies that were helpful, but I am still struggling with this.  I
> > have 9500 series MDS switches, running SAN-OS, that I need to archive.
> > Currently I rely on CiscoWorks to do this, which is pretty much the only
> > reason I still have that software in place.
> >
> > Here are the suggestions I have received, and implemented:
> >
> > Modify the bin/rancid file as follows:
> That's not enough, check the patch/email i have sent to this mailing
> list at the beginning of the month; subject was
>  "[PATCH] Preliminary support for Cisco's SANOS devices"
>
> bye
>        michael
>
> > --
> >         if (/^Application and Content Networking Software/) {
> $type="CE"; }
> > +      if (/^Cisco Storage Area Networking Operating System/) {
> > $type="SAN"; }
> > --
> >
> > --
> >     }
> >     # The ContentEngine lacks a definitive "end of config" marker.  If
> we
> >     # know that it is a CE and we have seen at least 5 lines of write
> term
> >     # o/p, we can be reasonably sure that we got the config.
> >     if ($type =~ /^CE$/ && $linecnt > 5) {
> >         $found_end = 1;
> >         return(0);
> >     }
> >
> > +    # The Cisco SAN switch running SANOS lacks a definitive "end of
> config"
> > +    # marker.  If we know that it is a SAN switch and we have seen at
> > least 5
> > +    # lines of write term o/p, we can be reasonably sure that we got
> > the config.
> > +    if ($type =~ /^SAN$/ && $linecnt > 5) {
> > +        $found_end = 1;
> > +        return(1);
> > +    }
> >
> >     return(0);
> > --
> >
> > I have done the above, but it didn't seem to yield the expected
> > results.  Here is my output from a rancid-run:
> >
> > Trying to get all of the configs.
> > mds-02-04: End of run not found
> >
> > mds-02-01: End of run not found
> >
> > mds-02-02: End of run not found
> >
> > mds-02-03: End of run not found
> >
> > <<output ommitted due to redundancy>>
> >
> > cvs diff: Diffing .
> > cvs diff: Diffing configs
> > cvs commit: Examining .
> > cvs commit: Examining configs
> >
> > ending: Wed Apr 30 10:42:09 PDT 2008
> >
> >
> > The above just loops for each round, and then it fails out.  Any
> > suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
>
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Eric Cables
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