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

[john heasley]

Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 01:16:55PM -0400, 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):

Are you using Linux or Solaris and haven't applied the expect patch
available on the rancid website?

Have you tried the cmdline?
NOPIPE=YES; export NOPIPE
jlogin -c 'show chassis clocks;show chassis environment;show chassis firmware;show chassis fpc detail;show chassis hardware detail;show chassis routing-engine;show chassis scb;show chassis sfm detail;show chassis ssb;show chassis feb detail;show chassis feb;show chassis cfeb;show chassis alarms;show system license;show system boot-messages;show system core-dumps;show version detail;show configuration' host

and if that fails jlogin -d -c ....

> 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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