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

[Chris Knight]

On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 4:06 PM,  <axhasan at gmail.com> wrote:
> If these devices are being decommissioned then you can delete the line from router.db.
>
> Is it possible these devices are listed in another group's router.db file?

I only have one router.db, and I tried commenting them out, and that
didn't work.

Thinking that perhaps the code was just checking timestamps on the
files in the configs directory, I even deleted the local copies of the
configs, and I am still getting the alerts.

So, I have tried:

1)  Commenting out the entries in router.db
2)  Deleting the local copies of the configs.
3)  Marking the entries as 'down' in router.db

I appreciate everyone's suggestions.  I am feeling better that despite
my lack of sleep last night this is turning out to not be as simple as
it sounds.  :)

-Chris


>
> -Asad
> Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Knight <boheme at gmail.com>
> Sender: rancid-discuss-bounces at shrubbery.net
> Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 15:44:25
> To: Roy<r.engehausen at gmail.com>; rancid-discuss<Rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net>
> Subject: Re: [rancid] How do I make Rancid forget about a switch?
>
> On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Roy <r.engehausen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Just remove them from router.db
>>
>
> Despite my all-nighter, the first thing I tried was commenting them out.  :)
>
> That didn't work, and is why I wrote to the list. I mentioned that in
> the third sentence of my original post.
>
> -Chris
>
>
>> On 9/24/2010 3:19 PM, Chris Knight wrote:
>>>
>>> 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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