[rancid] RANCID pulls hourly diff off NEXUS 5500 despite no changes

[Pete Boynton]

Doug,

Thanks for the quick reply. I am pretty much a RANCID newbie but I want to
answer your question:

Which section does it occur in?

How could I find out what section this is happening.

Thanks



On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Hughes, Doug <
Douglas.Hughes at deshawresearch.com> wrote:

>   Is it part of Show Ver or other? If you go into that section in the
> rancid file you can add a regex match to discard Time:
>
> ** **
>
> For instance, go to sub ShowVersion****
>
> Scroll down and you’ll see a ton of regular expressions.****
>
> Add a new one like this:****
>
> # ignore time changes to avoid hourly spam****
>
> /^Time: / && next;****
>
> ** **
>
> Put that line in whatever section is generating the annoying timestamp.***
> *
>
> ** **
>
> ** **
>
> *From:* rancid-discuss-bounces at shrubbery.net [mailto:
> rancid-discuss-bounces at shrubbery.net] *On Behalf Of *Pete Boynton
> *Sent:* Wednesday, October 17, 2012 9:50 AM
> *To:* rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
> *Subject:* [rancid] RANCID pulls hourly diff off NEXUS 5500 despite no
> changes****
>
> ** **
>
> Hello,
>
> We are running version of 2.3.8 of RANCID. The problem we are having is
> that every hour RANCID detects a change in the config and so it posts a new
> page even though no chance has occurred. It detects the line:
>
> !Time: Wed Oct 17 06:00:06 2012
>
>
> has changed from the hour before, so I guess technically a change has
> occurred and RANCID is doing what it was designed to do. However we are
> getting spammed with versions that really don't tell us when an important
> change has been made. This is only a problem on the NEXUS switches.
> Everything else works fine.
>
> Question:
>
> 1. Is there a way to tell RANCID to ignore the line that begins with !Time?
>
> Thanks for any help you can give
>
> Pedro ****
>
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