[rancid] Re: Cisco ASA 8.2 software - changes....

[john heasley]

Fri, May 29, 2009 at 08:11:47AM -0400, Sam.Holley at gtri.gatech.edu:
> We to were having the same issue, we did the following to Rancid to keep it from reporting on the file every time it was updated. So far, working like a champ.
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> The correct part to edit is the ShowFlash function between ~lines 564 and 577.  I added one line under this one:
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> /\s+vlan\.dat$/ && next;
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> to look like this:
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> /\s+vlan\.dat$/ && next;
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> /.*coredumpinfo.*/ && next;

still, what is the file?  is it configuration, which exists in the
show conf, and therefore can just be filtered?  or is a coredump, which
you'd want to know about changes.

ie: should rancid filter it, or say here's the DDTS (Thanks Justin)?

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> It now ignores any lines in the flash drive directory listing that contain "coredumpinfo".  The '.*' before and after are probably not necessary but it was added.
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> Sam
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> From: rancid-discuss-bounces at shrubbery.net [mailto:rancid-discuss-bounces at shrubbery.net] On Behalf Of Peter Serwe
> Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 10:59 PM
> To: Justin Shore
> Cc: rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
> Subject: [rancid] Re: Cisco ASA 8.2 software - changes....
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> Anybody running a configuration management system that checks the same things is going to log the change,
> it just so happens that rancid is particularly complete about checking for differences.
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> For that matter, rancid isn't really a full-fledged configuration management system, but most of what anyone really
> wants to use one for is encompassed in rancid's functionality.  Any functioning configuration differ that is as complete
> as rancid would pick up the changes, it just so happens that most people don't run one, or look at the diffs, because
> the rest of them don't email out the changes like rancid does out of the box.
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> I haven't noticed, FWIW, the same behavior in the 7.2.4 branch.
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> Peter
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> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Justin Shore <justin at justinshore.com<mailto:justin at justinshore.com>> wrote:
> Justin Shore wrote:
> > I'll put a call into TAC next week and raise hell about this.  There's
> > no excuse for this file's timestamp to be hit every time someone does a
> > 'show run' (which is apparently the trigger for this "feature").
> I opened my case with TAC last week and asked for it to be escalated to
> the DE folks.  My TAC engineer ran the case up the flagpole for me and
> this issue is now acknowledged to be and is officially logged as a bug.
>  The BugID is CSCsz85597.
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> http://tools.cisco.com/Support/BugToolKit/search/getBugDetails.do?method=fetchBugDetails&bugId=CSCsz85597
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> My engineer suggested downgrading to the latest 8.0.4 interim release as
> a temporary workaround while the DE folks address the bug and work it
> into a maintenance release, hopefully for 8.2.  It should be a really
> simple fix so hopefully it doesn't take too long.  The engineer said
> that at least one other person is now attached to this bug and they too
> were running RANCID.
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> Justin
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