[rancid] persistent alerts - but nothing was changed ... ?

[Roy]

I don't know the box but the diff seems to indicate that the location of 
mgmt0 and mgmt1 interfaces in the config file is changing.  In the first 
diff the interfaces are before Ethernet1/1 and in the second diff, they 
are after Ethernet 1/20





On 7/15/2013 5:41 PM, Wilkinson, Alex wrote:
>      0n Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 07:37:35PM +1000, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>
>      >On 15/07/2013 11:28, Wilkinson, Alex wrote:
>      >> Hi all,
>      >>
>      >> I am consistently getting rancid alerts (diffs) that config has changed on
>      >> a number of Cisco Nexus devices. However, the diffs in the email are exactly
>      >> the same each rancid-run(1) and are bogus.
>      >>
>      >> Is there anything that would cause rancid to see bogus diffs ?
>      >
>      >A diff is a diff, and it has content because something is different.
>      >Maybe whitespace.
>      >
>      >If you post one of these diffs, we can help examine it for you.
>
> I'm using SVN not CVS.
>
> Here is an example diff - I have not touched these lines whatsoever but get alerts every day about them:
>
>     Index: configs/nexus4k1-5
>     ===================================================================
>     - -- configs/nexus1-5 (revision 85)
>     @@ -94,6 +94,17 @@
>       ele-fwd pause rate threshold is 1000 pps
>     
>     
>     + interface mgmt0
>     +   speed 1000
>     +   duplex full
>     +   vrf member management
>     +   ip address 192.168.240.35/24
>     +
>     + interface mgmt1
>     + boot kickstart bootflash:/n4000-bk9-kickstart.4.1.2.E1.1i.bin
>     + boot system bootflash:/n4000-bk9.4.1.2.E1.1i.bin
>     + system health loopback frequency 60
>     +
>       interface Ethernet1/1
>         link state group 1 downstream
>         spanning-tree port type edge
>     @@ -194,17 +205,6 @@
>       interface Ethernet1/20
>         speed 10000
>     
>     - interface mgmt0
>     -   speed 1000
>     -   duplex full
>     -   vrf member management
>     -   ip address 192.168.240.35/24
>     -
>     - interface mgmt1
>     - boot kickstart bootflash:/n4000-bk9-kickstart.4.1.2.E1.1i.bin
>     - boot system bootflash:/n4000-bk9.4.1.2.E1.1i.bin
>     - system health loopback frequency 60
>     -
>
> Any ideas of how to debug ?
>
>     -Alex
>
>