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

[axhasan at gmail.com]

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?

-Asad
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-----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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