[rancid] F5 BIG-IP devices - any tricks?

[Colin Stubbs]

What O/S or distro you running RANCID on? Expect versions? BIGIP versions? etc

I've seen the same thing back on EL3/4 a few years ago. Mostly rancid
used to have issues with the ls /config/ssl/ssl.xxx commands for me.
Again, I either commented them out, or replaced the command with
something else that worked without issue (a script on the F5 that did
the same thing at one point).

I havn't had any issues for quite awhile though, mostly since moving
away from EL3/4 and using EL5/6 in production and Fedora 14/15/16 at
home.

On 14 May 2012 22:24, Ryan West <rwest at zyedge.com> wrote:
> Comment those lines out, they have never worked for me. I've recompiled
> expect for the bug and it doesn't seem to help.
>
> Sent from handheld
>
> On May 14, 2012, at 7:13 AM, "Matthew Walster" <matthew at walster.org> wrote:
>
>
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> On 6 May 2012 20:20, Ryan West <rwest at zyedge.com> wrote:
>>
>> Works for me too.  Thanks for the patch.
>
>
> Since applying the patch, I started to get a few "has not been able to
> contact for 24 hours" messages.
>
> The logs say:
>
> starting: Mon May 14 10:01:01 UTC 2012
>
>
>
> Trying to get all of the configs.
> myloadbalancer2: missed cmd(s): ls --full-time --color=never
> /config/ssl/ssl.crt,ls --full-time --color=never /config/ssl/ssl.key
> =====================================
> Getting missed routers: round 1.
> myloadbalancer2: missed cmd(s): ls --full-time --color=never
> /config/ssl/ssl.crt,ls --full-time --color=never /config/ssl/ssl.key
> =====================================
> Getting missed routers: round 2.
> myloadbalancer2: missed cmd(s): ls --full-time --color=never
> /config/ssl/ssl.crt,ls --full-time --color=never /config/ssl/ssl.key
> =====================================
> Getting missed routers: round 3.
> myloadbalancer2: missed cmd(s): ls --full-time --color=never
> /config/ssl/ssl.crt,ls --full-time --color=never /config/ssl/ssl.key
> =====================================
> Getting missed routers: round 4.
> devlb02.dev.tradefair: missed cmd(s): ls --full-time --color=never
> /config/ssl/ssl.crt,ls --full-time --color=never /config/ssl/ssl.key
>
> Sending        configs/myloadbalancer1
> Transmitting file data ...
> Committed revision 11893.
>
> ending: Mon May 14 10:06:26 UTC 2012
>
>
> In order to fix these, I just commented out the licence checks lines in the
> two command tables, then everything worked fine! Has anyone else come across
> this issue?
>
> Matthew Walster
>