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

[Justin Shore]

Here's the contents of mine:

ASA# more disk0:/coredumpinfo/coredump.cfg
CD_ENA=no
CD_FILESYSTEM=disk0:
CD_COMP=yes


It looks like some developer decided to store configuration parameters 
in a file on the disk rather than in the running-config.  I downgraded 
last night but I fully expect the file to be updated with other config 
if I were to actually enable the coredump feature.  I don't know where 
the actual coredumps would be stored however.  It could be in the 
coredumpinfo directory so excluding the directory and all its contents 
might not be a good thing.  Excluding the coredump.cfg file wouldn't be 
such a bad thing though.

Justin


john heasley wrote:
> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> The correct part to edit is the ShowFlash function between ~lines 564 and 577.  I added one line under this one:
>>
>>
>>
>> /\s+vlan\.dat$/ && next;
>>
>>
>>
>> to look like this:
>>
>> /\s+vlan\.dat$/ && next;
>>
>> /.*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)?
> 
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> Sam
>>
>>
>>
>> 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....
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> I haven't noticed, FWIW, the same behavior in the 7.2.4 branch.
>>
>> Peter
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> http://tools.cisco.com/Support/BugToolKit/search/getBugDetails.do?method=fetchBugDetails&bugId=CSCsz85597
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Justin
>>
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