[rancid] Re: Dell Powerconnect switches - problem and suggestion

[Josh Rogers]

>
> Did you look into what John Heasley suggested previously about trying
> the SMC scripts?

I did try, but had trouble getting them to work.  They want to call
hpuifilter, which doesn't connect for some reason, and I didn't get any
further.

I continued working on getting drancid/dlogin to work, and managed to get it
to get past 'show vlan' more prompt hanging by removing the carrot ^ from
the RE. Now, it completes the commands and shows it properly, but when it
issues the final 'exit' command to disconnect, its picking up the
"Connection closed by..." string created by the session closing and believes
it did not close cleanly.



On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 11:23 PM, Jeremy Singletary
<jeremys at rickyninja.net>wrote:

> You'll also need a modified rancid-fe that recognizes the dell string in
> router.db and calls drancid.
>
> Did you look into what John Heasley suggested previously about trying
> the SMC scripts?
>
> -jeremy
>
> On 08/14/09, Josh Rogers <2009 at tybox.net> said:
> >
> >    What  steps are necessary to monitor Dell switches?  Download drancid,
> >    dlogin  and  put  them  in /opt/local/libexec/rancid with other rancid
> >    executables,  then  what?   Update router.db and specify a device as a
> >    'dell' instead of 'cisco' or 'juniper'
> >    Is that basically it?
> >
> >    On    Fri,    Aug   14,   2009   at   9:45   PM,   Jeremy   Singletary
> >    <[1]jeremys at rickyninja.net> wrote:
> >
> >      Looks  like  there  are some invisible characters showing up in the
> >      pager
> >      in  newer  Dells.  Download this version of dlogin, and let us know
> >      if it
> >      resolves the issue.
> >      [2]http://www.rickyninja.net/rancid/dlogin-dev
> >      Thanks,
> >      Jeremy
> >
> >    On 08/14/09, George Hills <[3]george at brightbox.co.uk> said:
> >    > Hi,
> >    >
> >    >  My  thanks to Jeremy Singletary for his drancid/dlogin scripts, and
> >    Nate
> >    > Steffen for his updates and email help.
> >    >
> >    > I've had a couple of different problems trying to get RANCID working
> >    > with some Dell Powerconnect switches recently.
> >    >
> >    >  I'm  using  rancid  2.3.2a7 from the Ubuntu package on Ubuntu Hardy
> >    amd64.
> >    >
> >    >  My  Powerconnects  are  6248s running 2.0.1.2 and 2.2.0.3 and 5324s
> >    running
> >    > 2.0.0.40.
> >    >
> >    >  The 6248s had an easy problem - the dlogin script is sending "exit"
> >    and
> >    >  expecting to get out, but that only takes it out of enable mode. It
> >    then
> >    > needs to send "quit" (*not* "exit" again) afterwards to get out.
> >    >
> >    > I bodged this by just adding a line:
> >    >
> >    > strowger at beast:~$ diff dlogin [4]dlogin.gh
> >    > 672a673
> >    > >     dsend "quit\r"
> >    >
> >    >
> >    > On the 5348 (where "exit" from enable mode logs you off...sigh...) I
> >    > think there's a problem with the pager. My "more" prompts look like
> >    >
> >    > "More: <space>,  Quit: q, One line: <return> "
> >    >
> >    >  and dlogin freezes when it sees one. Other than that it works fine.
> >    I
> >    >  guess there's a problem with the regex but I can't work out what it
> >    is.
> >    > Would be grateful for any suggestions.
> >    >
> >    > Cheers.
> >    >
> >    > --
> >    > George Hills
> >    > Systems Administrator
> >    > Brightbox
> >    > [5]http://www.brightbox.co.uk/
> >    >
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> > References
> >
> >    1. mailto:jeremys at rickyninja.net
> >    2. http://www.rickyninja.net/rancid/dlogin-dev
> >    3. mailto:george at brightbox.co.uk
> >    4. http://dlogin.gh/
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