[rancid] Device into routers.down

[Alan McKinnon]

On 24/05/2013 15:48, Gary Douglas wrote:
> We have been running Rancid for a couple of years on our core devices. I
> am moving it to VM with Unbuntu Server and setting it up for all our
> network devices. I have it working on our egress groups with no problem.
> I add the core group and it moves every device to the routers.down file
> automagically. I run the clogin for the device in question and this logs
> me in just fine. I have removed then added the devices back into
> router.db and this does not help. The devices I am trying to connect to
> are the same type device that is working in the egress group. How can I
> troubleshoot this problem?

Most likely you have different versions of utility tools such as expect
and friends.

Start by examining the logs in $RANCIDDIR/var/logs for that device - the
cause of failure is usually there.


You can also check for dumb human mistakes like mistyping :up in
router.db and a typo in GROUPS in rancid.conf [yes indeed, I've made
those mistakes myself - more than once :-) ]


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Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon at gmail.com