[rancid] A little help modifing the cisco scrip

[heasley]

Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 12:55:50PM -0500, Lee:
> The quick-n-dirty fix would be to add it to clogin under
> proc run_commands { prompt command } {
> 
> For example, I added a "term width 132" there to prevent spurious
> diffs when running rancid from crontab & then from a terminal:
> 
>             send "terminal length 0\r"
>                 # -LR- wait for prompt then send term width
>             expect {
>                -re $prompt {}
>                -re "\[\n\r]+"      { exp_continue }
>             }
>             send "terminal width 132\r"                 ;# -LR-
> 
> 
> Another option would be adding the command to
> @commandtable = (
> in rancid .. but you'd also have to add a routine to handle the command.

is there not a configuration on the box that will disable it globally?

else, i'd create a new rancid script for it - add to
@commandtable = (
        {'show version'                 => 'DoNothing'},

> Lee
> 
> On 2/20/12, Richey <mylists at battleop.com> wrote:
> > I am polling a large number of Adtran TA900 routers with Rancid.   Setting
> > them up just like a cisco box for the most part does exactly what I need.
> > The TA900 will spit console messages out during telnet/ssh sessions similar
> > to how Cisco boxes will if you are consoled into them.   The problem is that
> > this sometimes causes a router to end up with hundreds of revisions when the
> > only thing that's different is that the router threw out a message which
> > caused Rancid to think that it was a change.
> >
> > So I've been searching and I really can't find the correct Google phrase but
> > what script would I modify so I can add the command "no events" so that it
> > would turn off the console output for that session? I figured that if I can
> > send that command before anything else then I won't see the console event
> > which will keep Rancid from thinking it was a config change.
> >
> >
> > Richey
> >
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