[rancid] Rancid not collecting for ExtremeXOS switches

[Michael Tiarnaigh]

Sorry, I should have included this with my original mail.

 Rancid is running on FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE with what appears to be v2.3.2
and expect v5.43.0

Thanks,
 M



-----Original Message-----
From: john heasley [mailto:heas at shrubbery.net] 
Sent: 17 November 2010 22:17
To: Michael Tiarnaigh
Cc: rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
Subject: Re: [rancid] Rancid not collecting for ExtremeXOS switches

Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 11:52:20AM -0000, Michael Tiarnaigh:
> I have a bunch of new Extreme XOS switches (250's & 450's) which we're
> currently adding to our network, and simply cannot get Rancid to poll
> for them successfully:

which version of rancid on what O/S with which version of expect?

> TowercomTuam.1 # show version
> 
> Switch      : 800216-00-01 0950G-80375 Rev 1.0 BootROM: 1.0.3.5
IMG:
> 12.3.3.6
> 
>  
> 
> Image   : ExtremeXOS version 12.3.3.6 v1233b6 by release-manager
> 
>           on Fri Oct 16 20:01:57 PDT 2009
> 
> BootROM : 1.0.3.5
> 
>  
> 
> We also have a few hundred of the older Summit-48si's which work just
> fine. The issues I'm seeing with the new ExtremeXos switches are
either
> that I get constant "end of run not found" errors, or the Expect
process
> hangs indefinitely and consumes more and more resources on the server.

> 
>  
> 
> I have played around with my .cloginrc file and have added the
following
> entries for one switch:
> 
>  
> 
> add autoenable tctuam-switch.internal.nw 1
> 
> add method tctuam-switch.internal.nw ssh
> 
> add passprompt tctuam-switch.internal.nw "rancidadmin:"
> 
> add user tctuam-switch.internal.nw rancidadmin
> 
> add password tctuam-switch.internal.nw ******
> 
>  
> 
> I added the add passprompt tctuam-switch.internal.nw "rancidadmin:"
> part, as it was hanging before this. When I run this through clogin
from
> the command line, it does appear to connect to the switch as normal
and
> I can then interact with it as expected:
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> [rancid at cron /usr/local/libexec/rancid]$ ./clogin
> tctuam-switch.internal.nw
> 
> tctuam-switch.internal.nw
> 
> spawn ssh -c 3des -x -l rancidadmin tctuam-switch.internal.nw
> 
> Keyboard-interactive authentication
> 
> Enter password for rancidadmin:
> 
> ExtremeXOS
> 
> Copyright (C) 2000-2009 Extreme Networks. All rights reserved.
> 
> Protected by US Patent Nos: 6,678,248; 6,104,700; 6,766,482;
6,618,388;
> 6,034,957; 6,859,438; 6,912,592; 6,954,436; 6,977,891; 6,980,550;
> 6,981,174; 7,003,705; 7,017,082; 7,046,665; 7,126,923; 7,142,509;
> 7,149,217; 7,152,124; 7,154,861; 7,245,619; 7,245,629; 7,269,135.
> 
>
========================================================================
> ======
> 
>  
> 
> Press the <tab> or '?' key at any time for completions.
> 
> Remember to save your configuration changes.
> 
>  
> 
> TowercomTuam.1 #
> 
> TowercomTuam.1 # show version
> 
> Switch      : 800216-00-01 0950G-80375 Rev 1.0 BootROM: 1.0.3.5
IMG:
> 12.3.3.6
> 
>  
> 
> Image   : ExtremeXOS version 12.3.3.6 v1233b6 by release-manager
> 
>           on Fri Oct 16 20:01:57 PDT 2009
> 
> BootROM : 1.0.3.5
> 
> TowercomTuam.2 # q
> 
>  
> 
> Connection to tctuam-switch.internal.nw closed.
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> The issue is however, getting this to run via the rancid-run scripts.
> Any time I enable this switch to collect via my router.db file, Rancid
> seems to crumble!
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas on what I'm missing here? I'm sure others
> have been through this before and have hit the same frustrations as
> myself.
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help offered,
> 
>  
> 
> Michael.
> 
>  
> 

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