[rancid] groups, customers and so on in RANCID....

[Martin Barry]

$quoted_author = "Javier A. Herrera" ;
> 
> sure i'm missing or misunderstanding something, but i'm not able to make
> RANCID work with customers or groups, unless i'm supposing things that
> RANCID doesn't do...let me explain...what i wanted to do was to put
> several customers or groups on the LIST_OF_GROUPS entry, each one of
> then associated with a router.db list of devices in the corresponding
> directory, and then, in the .cloginrc file, use a different credentials
> for each group, that is, for example:
> 
> add method *.group1 ssh
> add method *.group2 telnet
> add method *.group3 ssh telnet
> add password *.group1 {pass1} {pass2}
> add password *.group2 {pass1} {passpass}

The regex matching in cloginrc is only against the hostname and not any
other grouping you may have defined.

This works best if you have structured hostnames that contain the relevant
identifying information like location or customer ID etc.etc.

cheers
Marty