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

[Alan McKinnon]

On 17/07/2013 03:46, Wilkinson, Alex wrote:
>     0n Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 06:53:45AM +1000, heasley wrote: 
> 
>     >Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 11:53:23AM +0800, Wilkinson, Alex:
>     >>     0n Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 12:47:55PM +1000, Roy wrote: 
>     >> 
>     >>     >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
>     >> 
>     >> You are exactly right. When comparing the diffs via OpenGrok its very clear that
>     >> the line locations consistently change causing a diff + rancid alert. If i'm not
>     >> changing these devices and the line locations are supposedly changing - what
>     >> could cause this ? rancid ?
>     >
>     >it wouldnt be rancid, it's the device itself.  report the bug to the TAC.
> 
> Something I have noticed is that for all my Nexus devices (7K, 5K, 4K) none of
> them have the 'RANCID-CONTENT-TYPE' of 'cisco-nx' but rather plain old 'cisco'.
> Could this be the reason behind the my problem ? And even if not, why would
> Rancid not be using cisco-nx automagically ? Or do I have to set it manually ?


You have to set it manually in router.db

Rancid has no auto-detection of device type


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Alan McKinnon
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