[rancid] rancid hangs up on HP Procurve 2900-24

[Skye Hagen]

I had a similar problem with lots of timeouts on all my HP gear.

The patch to hpuifilter took care of the problem for me. Look for David
Byers email to the group titled '[rancid] Problem backing up HP switches on
RHEL 6.2 (x86_64) -- patch included'.

Skye.


On 2/15/12 2:39 PM, "Serge Leschinsky" <serge.leschinsky at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I faced a problem while trying to use rancid with HP ProCurve 2900-24. Can you
> please help me with the problem identification and fixing?
> 
> I used RHEL5/6 with rancid 2.3.5, 2.3.6, 2.3.8 (from the repo and built from
> source).
> 
> The problem looks like inability to parse the output from HP, i.e.
> ===========================================================================
> [rancid at rancid ~]$ hlogin -c 'show time'  10.3.0.254
> 10.3.0.254
> spawn hpuifilter -- ssh -c 3des -x -l root 10.3.0.254
> We'd like to keep you up to date about:
>    * Software feature updates
>    * New product announcements
>    * Special events
> 
> Please register your products now at:  www.ProCurve.com
> 
> root at 10.3.0.254's password:
> ProCurve J9049A Switch 2900-24G
> Software revision T.13.71
> 
> Copyright (C) 1991-2009 Hewlett-Packard Co.  All Rights Reserved.
> 
>                             RESTRICTED RIGHTS LEGEND
> 
>   Use, duplication, or disclosure by the Government is subject to restrictions
>   as set forth in subdivision (b) (3) (ii) of the Rights in Technical Data and
>   Computer Software clause at 52.227-7013.
> 
>           HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY, 3000 Hanover St., Palo Alto, CA 94303
> 
> Press any key to continuesw-core#
> Error: TIMEOUT reached
> [rancid at rancid ~]$
> ============================================================================
> 
> 
> If I try just to login and _then_ manually type 'show time' it looks more
> interesting:
> 
> 
> ============================================================================
> [rancid at rancid ~]$ hlogin  10.3.0.254
> 10.3.0.254
> spawn hpuifilter -- ssh -c 3des -x -l root 10.3.0.254
> We'd like to keep you up to date about:
> ..... skip the banner .....
> Press any key to continuesw-core# show time
> 
> Error: TIMEOUT reached
> [rancid at rancid ~]$ show time
> -bash: show: command not found
> ============================================================================
> 
> So it looks like commands are not sent to the HP terminal. Is it a system
> problem (expect) or rancid bug?
> 
> 
> Thank you in advance,
> Serge
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