[rancid] Rancid and Viewvc / Authentication and Inventory View

[Heasley]

Am Oct 1, 2013 um 15:11 schrieb Daniel Schmidt <daniel.schmidt at wyo.gov>:
> 
> Who hasn't cobbled last minute rancid parsers to double check the SN, SNMP-location, ect out of configs for the inventory Nazis?  I bet Heas has!  :-)
> 

I will use the flexibility of 3.0 to have inventory only collections. 

> 
>> On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Heasley <heas at shrubbery.net> wrote:
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>> > Am Oct 1, 2013 um 0:46 schrieb Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon at gmail.com>:
>> >
>> >> On 01/10/2013 09:07, Tayfun Sarı wrote:
>> >> Hi All,
>> >>
>> >> I install rancid and viewvc successfully.I had 2 thing to be done and
>> >> need advice.
>> >>
>> >> 1-Need a authentication for viewvc.Is it possible to do it by
>> >> configuration or need to installa some other tools?Whats is your advice
>> >> and best practices?
>> >>
>> >> 2-I need to view the inventory of my cisco switches.What should I do to
>> >> view this info on Viewvc.
>> >
>> >
>> > viewvc is a CVS viewer that runs in a web server. It takes your cvs
>> > files and presents them in a browser. Authentication is done in viewvc
>> > and in your http server, it has nothing to do with rancid.
>> >
>> > A CVS viewer can only show you the files it has in the CVS repo, it
>> > cannot extract information from them and present it in different ways.
>> > Rancid by itself does not intelligently process inventory, it only grabs
>> > show output and puts it in a file. You can view that file to see what
>> > rancid recorded (as well as everything else it also recorded)
>> >
>> You could also write something to post process the rancid data.
>> 
>> > By inventory do you mean an organized list of what hardware you have
>> > installed with eg serial and model numbers? If that's what you mean you
>> > will need to use a proper inventory tool, rancid is not suitable for
>> > that purpose.
>> >
>> > --
>> > Alan McKinnon
>> > alan.mckinnon at gmail.com
>> >
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