[rancid] Re: Rancid with Ethernet Blade Switch for HP

[Olli Janatuinen]

Hi

Peter Serwe tell me that Blade Switch for HP are actually Nortel 
(formerly Alteon products) OEM'd to HP.

They works with alteon mode doesn't need any changes to code or devices. 
So problem is solved and I'm happy.

I think that is good idea add description to alteon mode that they works 
with HP Blade Switches too.


Best regards, Olli Janatuinen


Jethro R Binks wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Aug 2008, Olli Janatuinen wrote:
> 
>> We have many "GbE2c Ethernet Blade Switch for HP" switches in our 
>> company and we want get its configs for Rancid.
>>
>> In HP Blade switches haven't same software than in HP Procurve switches.
>> I can login to switches with hlogin but I can't get configurations.
>>
>> I'm not very good coder but I you can tell me what I need change I think 
>>    I can get it working.
>>
>> My hlogin and manual config getting log below.
> 
> I have some of these, although I haven't got around to getting rancid to 
> work with them yet.
> 
> If you are using the default AOS CLI, then you may have more success using 
> alogin and arancid rather than hlogin, which are for Alteon's WebOS.  If 
> you see the commands in arancid, they are much the same.  However, I 
> suspect some refinement will be required, which would be useful to feed 
> back into the alogin/arancid modules.
> 
> The reason why I haven't done this is because for familiarity reasons, I 
> changed the command mode to be the IOS-like interface rather than the AOS 
> one.  Unfortunately it isn't near enough IOS-like for plain cisco 
> rancid/clogin to work well enough just yet, from what I recall.
> 
> Hope that helps a bit,
> 
> Jethro.