[rancid] Email notification with RANCID

[Krzysztof Zygmunt]

Hi,

It looks very interesting, can you tell me what do you do with those
syslog messages
on splunk side ? How do you generate any reports from such information ?

cheers
kris

2012/1/18 Hagen, Skye <skyeh at uidaho.edu>:
> We took a completely different tact on notification. We backup over 1600
> devices nightly, and only want notification if there is a problem, and in
> some cases, only when there is a major problem.
>
> We use syslog with Splunk for a majority of our reporting. What I did was to
> wrap 'rancid-run' in a shell script that will take the logs, massage them,
> and send the results to syslog.
>
> We have created a number of Splunk reports, such as a report that tells us
> if there are excessive errors, or if a backup has had successive failures.
>
> If anyone is interested, I have attached the script.
>
> Skye.
>
>
>
>
>
> On 1/16/12 5:58 PM, "Michael Lee" <michael.lee at mincom.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Really appreciate your reply. Yeah, however I am trying to list out all
>> the
>> devices and backup status in a list. By the way, do you know anyway to
>> send
>> the configuration diff using html format in an EMAIL similar to what we
>> see on
>> VIEWVC?
>>
>>
>> BR,
>> Michael
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: shouldbe q931 [mailto:shouldbeq931 at gmail.com]
>> Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 2:55 AM
>> To: Michael Lee
>> Cc: rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
>> Subject: Re: [rancid] Email notification with RANCID
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 5:33 AM, Michael Lee <michael.lee at mincom.com>
>> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I am new to RANCID, hopefully you guys can help. I have been trying to
>>> find
>>> some way to make RANCID notify daily through mail which devices is backup
>>> successful and which backup is not successful.
>>>
>>> Is there currently a way to do this. I notice the capability at the
>>> moment
>>> only send notification on the changes of the configuration.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Many thanks in advance,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Br,
>>>
>>> Michael
>>>
>>>
>>
>> rancid will send a notification email if it has not been able to
>> contact a device for 24hours, the below is from control_rancid
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> -----------------
>> # If any machines have not been reached within the last $OLDTIME
>> # hours, mail out a list of them.
>> cd $DIR/configs
>> rm -f $DIR/routers.failed
>> if [ "X$OLDTIME" = "X" ] ; then
>>     OLDTIME=24
>> fi
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> -----------------
>>
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