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

[Michael Stefaniuc]

Chris Knight wrote:
> 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
All are valid ways to take stuff out of the backup and I used all three.

> 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.  :)
Did you cvs/svn commit your changes to router.db? Easy to miss in the
heat of the battle.

bye
	michael

>> -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.  :)



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