[rancid] How do I make Rancid forget about a switch?

[Chris Knight]

I have marked those devices as down, and yet I just received this email:

The following routers have not been successfully contacted for
more than 1 hours.
-rw-rw-r--  1 proxyit  rancid  16129 Sep 24 01:46 mc-sw-26
-rw-rw-r--  1 proxyit  rancid  17963 Sep 24 01:46 mc-sw-27
-rw-rw-r--  1 proxyit  rancid  30866 Sep 24 01:46 mc-asa-254


Looks like marking them as down didn't do the trick.

-Chris


On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 8:36 AM, Chris Gauthier <cgauthier at mapscu.com> wrote:
> According to the router.db man page (http://www.shrubbery.net/rancid/man/router.db.5.html):
>
> <state>
> The state is either "up", or some other arbitrary value, e.g. "down". If the device is not marked "up" the device's configuration will not be collected. It is highly recommended that comments are made for any router not listed as up, so as to indicate the reason a router is not to be polled, e.g.:
> dial1.paris:cisco:up:
> core1.paris:cisco:down:in testing until 5/5/2001.
> core2.paris:cisco:ticketed:Ticket 6054234, 5/3/2001
> border1.paris:juniper:up:
>
> The script "downreport" in util/ can be used to produce a report of routers in router.db that are not marked "up".
>
> Chris G.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rancid-discuss-bounces at shrubbery.net [mailto:rancid-discuss-bounces at shrubbery.net] On Behalf Of Chris Knight
> Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010 8:29 AM
> To: rancid-discuss
> Subject: [rancid] How do I make Rancid forget about a switch?
>
> Yesterday I pulled two switches and an ASA from my network.  As expected, at a certain point I started getting notifications that Rancid was unable to pull the configs after X hours. So, I commented out the switches and asa from routers.db, but I am still getting alerts.  Yes, I know I could google it, but I've been up for 36 hours and I'm hoping someone will show some compassion and tell me the quick fix.  :)
>
> -Chris
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