[rancid] Re: bypassing splash screen on HP ProCurve 3500

[David Newman]

On 12/17/08 12:35 AM, Jon Peatfield wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Dec 2008, David Newman wrote:
> 
>> On 12/15/08 12:20 PM, Jon Peatfield wrote:
>>
>>> that is with rancid-2.3.2a8 with a patch (from Richard Golier) to
>>> collect info with the right commands for the 'newer' versions of the HP
>>> firmware.
>>>
>>> I suppose that at some point I ought to check if rancid-2.3.2a9 already
>>> includes that hp fix...
>>
>> That might be the problem. I'm running 2.3.1_3 from FreeBSD ports.
>>
>> Later in the week when I have more free cycles I will try again with
>> 2.3.2aX...
> 
> Sounds very likely.  From http://www.shrubbery.net/rancid/
> 
> ...
>    Also, there are two alpha images;  rancid-2.3.2a7.tar.gz and
>    rancid-wcgallar.tar.gz. The latter pre-dates the former by just a bit;
>    both now include fixes for use of SSH with HP Procurve switches.
> 
> though a8 and a9 are now on the ftp site so are presumably the preferred
> versions.

OK, I installed rancid-2.3.2a7_1 from the FreeBSD ports collection after
deinstalling 2.3.1. The good news is that "hlogin -c 'sh run' 1.2.3.4"
now runs just fine with no more problems from the splash screen.

The bad news: rancid-run still won't grab configs. The log error is the
same as before:

Trying to get all of the configs.
1.2.3.4: missed cmd(s): show stack,show module,write term
1.2.3.4: End of run not found

This switch is ID'd as an hp device in router.db, and again here is the
relevant section from .cloginrc:

# hp3500yl
add user 1.2.3.4 myuser
add password 1.2.3.4 iamsolame
add autoenable 1.2.3.4 1
add method 1.2.3.4 ssh

Not sure what else is missing here. rancid grabs configs from a bunch of
Cisco devices with no problems.

thanks

dn