[rancid] Re: Adding a new device type

[Chris Boot]

All,

I've attached the patch since Thunderbird seems to mangle tabs.

HTH,
Chris

Chris Boot wrote:
> Mike,
>
> Many thanks! I have a set of working scripts now. Where do I send my patch?
>
> Cheers,
> Chris
>
> Mike Ashcraft wrote:
>   
>> Chris,
>>
>> The quick basics:
>>
>> 1 -- Create an expect script similar to clogin that can connect to the device and run commands.  You may be able to start with one of the existing *login scripts found in the bin directory, if they partially work on your device, to speed up the process.  If you can find one that already works, use it.  This would need to telnet in and the MikroTik interface is fairly simple.  clogin might work for you with only minimal changes to address the format of the prompt.
>>
>> 2 -- create a perl script similar to rancid that uses the login expect script from the previous step to obtain the configuration and parse/sort it as needed to clean up the output.  For example on the MikroTik this may just run the 'export' command and discard the login output and CLI prompt.
>>
>> 3 -- Add your new device type to rancid-fe
>>
>> 4 -- Setup the new devices in router.db using your new device type
>>
>> Good luck,
>>
>> Mike
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: rancid-discuss-bounces at shrubbery.net [mailto:rancid-discuss-bounces at shrubbery.net] On Behalf Of Chris Boot
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 4:08 AM
>> To: rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
>> Subject: [rancid] Adding a new device type
>>
>> All,
>>
>> I've just discovered RANCID after an entry on the SANS ISC blog 
>> (http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=6100) - very nice tool. I've set 
>> it up for our HP ProCurve switches (a mixture of 2810s and 2610s) and 
>> after a small struggle it's working really nicely, so thanks.
>>
>> We also use several MikroTik routers around the company, so I wanted to 
>> be able to add these to rancid. These aren't supported yet, so I wanted 
>> to add support for them, but I haven't a clue where to start. Can anyone 
>> give me a bit of an introduction please? Suffice to say they're nothing 
>> like Ciscos or HPs with their own CLI accessible by SSH or Telnet so 
>> they would need a whole new set of scripts to poll.
>>
>> Any hints would be really appreciated.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Chris
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