[rancid] Re: Issues getting Rancid to Back up the JuniperMX960.

[Elliott, Andrew]

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Andrew Elliott
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: john heasley [mailto:heas at shrubbery.net]
> Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 1:06 PM
> To: Elliott, Andrew
> Cc: Rowe, William; rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
> Subject: Re: [rancid] Re: Issues getting Rancid to Back up the
> JuniperMX960.
> 
> Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 12:39:16PM -0400, Elliott, Andrew:
> > I think we were able to find the problem.
> >
> >
> >
> > The routers have very large configurations and when I ran jlogin
> > manually, I saw that it was timing out about 90% of the way through
> the
> > configuration output.  The point at which it timed out varied
> slightly
> > every time I ran it.
> >
> 
> I think you have some other problem and this fix is going to fail in
> the
> future/randomly.
> 
> What do you mean by 'timed out'?  did it hang?  did jlogin/expect exit
> with a
> timeout error?  if you run the command manually,
> 	NOPIPE=YES; export NOPIPE
> 	jlogin -c 'show version;...' host
> what is at the end of the host.raw file?
> 

Jlogin just hangs until it times out.

The log shows the following for each of the routers that are failing(I
changed the router name):

cp: cannot access rtr1.city-st.raw
rtr1.city-st jlogin error: Error: TIMEOUT reached
rtr1.city-st: End of run not found


> >
> > To correct the issue, I added compression to ssh to get the
data-rate
> to
> > slow down a bit:
> >
> >
> >
> > stlrvrpol0> grep "\-C" jlogin
> >
> >         -C* {
> >
> >                 if [ catch {spawn $sshcmd -C -c $cyphertype -x -l
> $user
> > -i $identfile $router} reason ] {
> >
> >                 if [ catch {spawn $sshcmd -C -c $cyphertype -x -l
> $user
> > $router} reason ] {
> >
> > stlrvrpol0>
> >
> >
> >
> > -andrew
> >
> >
> >
> > From: rancid-discuss-bounces at shrubbery.net
> > [mailto:rancid-discuss-bounces at shrubbery.net] On Behalf Of Rowe,
> William
> > Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 10:37 AM
> > To: rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
> > Subject: [rancid] Issues getting Rancid to Back up the Juniper
MX960.
> >
> >
> >
> > Has anyone else encountered issues backing up the Juniper MX960 with
> > Rancid.
> >
> > Any insight is appreciated.
> >
> >
> >
> > Bill
> >
> 
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