[rancid] Re: [PATCH] Add support for the Cisco WLC

[john heasley]

Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 03:12:28AM +0000, Ryan West:
> Michael,
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Michael Stefaniuc [mailto:mstefani at redhat.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 6:11 PM
> > To: Ryan West
> > Cc: rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
> > Subject: Re: [rancid] [PATCH] Add support for the Cisco WLC
> > 
> > On 04/28/2010 01:46 AM, Ryan West wrote:
> > Hello Ryan,
> > 
> > >> -----Original Message-----
> > >> From: rancid-discuss-bounces at shrubbery.net [mailto:rancid-discuss-
> > >> bounces at shrubbery.net] On Behalf Of Michael Stefaniuc
> > >> Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 4:04 PM
> > >> To: rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
> > >> Subject: [rancid] [PATCH] Add support for the Cisco WLC
> > >>
> > >> Hello guys,
> > >>
> > >> I hoped that somebody would beat me to add the Cisco WLC upstream...
> > >> Though there was a lot of interest in testing such a patch so here it is.
> > >> Especially testing on versions 4.x is needed as I could test it only
> > >> on 5.2.x and 6.0.x.
> > >
> > > It's much cleaner with this version, but it's still failing on the pager or
> > an expect loop.  I would move over to version 6 assurewave but I think I would
> > hit some of the bugs, so I'm holding on to 4.2.207 for a bit longer.
> > >
> > > Here is what's happening:
> > thanks for the detailed report; it made it easy to figure out what goes wrong.
> > The 4.x versions seem to use this pager prompt too:
> > Press Enter to continue Or<Ctl Z>  to abort
> > 
> > The fix was easy aka accept both "or" and "Or" and don't send a CTRL-Z but an
> > ENTER. It still worked just fine on my 6.0.x boxes but the 5.2.x box begged to
> > differ... There is one place in the "show running-config" where the pager "--
> > More-- or (q)uit" clobbers a previous line.
> > 
> > Can you please give the attached patch a whirl? It applies on top of my
> > previous patch. I have added also an unrelated change for wlcrancid where the
> > "External Temperature" is filtered out too.
> > 
> 
> I worked through the pager issues earlier as well, I used ^.*--More--.* to match on the unclean line.  The problem still exists though, the output from 'show run-config commands' is very detailed and will change a lot over time.  Some logic would need to be added to determine the major code version before issuing the commandtable.

you want to turn off the pager if at all possible.  if 4.x cant do it but
could be upgraded, i'd just ignore 4.x - its that much of a pita.

> Here's some output:
> 
> Radio Type..................................... RADIO_TYPE_80211b/g
>   Noise Information
>     Noise Profile................................ PASSED
>     Channel 1.................................... -103 dBm
>     Channel 2....................................  -98 dBm
>     Channel 3....................................  -93 dBm
>     Channel 4....................................  -97 dBm
>     Channel 5.................................... -100 dBm
>     Channel 6.................................... -102 dBm
>     Channel 7....................................  -99 dBm
>     Channel 8....................................  -95 dBm
>     Channel 9....................................  -94 dBm
>     Channel 10................................... -102 dBm
>     Channel 11................................... -101 dBm
>   Interference Information
>     Interference Profile......................... PASSED
>     Channel 1....................................  -80 dBm @  5 % busy
>     Channel 2.................................... -128 dBm @  0 % busy
> ............................. -128 dBm @  0 % busy
>     Channel 4.................................... -128 dBm @  0 % busy
>     Channel 5.................................... -128 dBm @  0 % busy
>     Channel 6....................................  -78 dBm @  5 % busy
>     Channel 7.................................... -128 dBm @  0 % busy
>     Channel 8.................................... -128 dBm @  0 % busy
>     Channel 9.................................... -128 dBm @  0 % busy
>     Channel 10...................................  -86 dBm @  1 % busy
>     Channel 11...................................  -75 dBm @  4 % busy
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -ryan
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