[rancid] Re: ASA Time-Based License Diff Removal

[john heasley]

Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 10:22:54AM -0400, Christopher DeRemer:
> Hello all,
> 
> I just updated our license in an ASA 5520 and now they have "time-based licenses" for your subscription based services... in this case the bot-net filter. I would like to prevent a daily count-down diff like the one seen below. Can someone help me filter this out, I'm not very good at the expect and other code work.
> 
> Example:
> 
> Index: configs/10.10.1.254
> ===================================================================
> - -- configs/10.10.1.254        (revision 251)
> @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
>   !
>   !This platform has an ASA 5520 VPN Plus license.
> - !This platform has a time-based license that will expire in 364 day(s).
> + !This platform has a time-based license that will expire in 363 day(s).

Could filter it until its < 10 days to expiration like this:

Index: bin/rancid.in
===================================================================
--- bin/rancid.in	(revision 2232)
+++ bin/rancid.in	(working copy)
@@ -203,6 +203,10 @@
 	    ProcessHistory("COMMENTS","keysort","F1", "!Image: $_") && next;
 	/^Cisco Secure PIX /i &&
 	    ProcessHistory("COMMENTS","keysort","F1", "!Image: $_") && next;
+	# ASA "time-based licenses" - eg: bot-net
+	/^This (PIX|platform) has a time-based license that will expire in\s+(\d{2,})\s+.*$/ &&
+	    ProcessHistory("COMMENTS","keysort","D1",
+			   "!This $1 has a time-based license\n") && next;
 	# PIX 6 fail-over license, as in "This PIX has an Unrestricted (UR)
 	# license."  PIX 7 as "his platform has ..."
 	/^This (PIX|platform) has an?\s+(.*)$/ &&