[rancid] Mikrotik and last status on email...

[heasley]

Mon, Aug 04, 2014 at 04:14:52PM +0200, Alan McKinnon:
> On 04/08/2014 15:38, Jason Ede wrote:
> > We’re trying to monitor the config in our mikrotiks with rancid.
> > However, in the config we’re getting the last-status=succeeded appearing
> > and disappearing from the /tool email line as shown below.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > - set address=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx from=mikrotik at birchenallhowden.co.uk
> > <mailto:from=mikrotik at birchenallhowden.co.uk> last-status=succeeded
> > password=password port=25 start-tls=yes user=someuser
> > 
> > + set address=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx from=mikrotik at birchenallhowden.co.uk
> > <mailto:from=mikrotik at birchenallhowden.co.uk>
> > 
> > + password=password port=25 start-tls=yes
> > 
> > + user=someuser

is *any* of that relevant configuration?  what does it do?  is there
something about your configuration that is causing this for you but not
others, Jason?  Is it just a difference in s/w version?

> >  
> > 
> > Is there a way I can easily modify mtrancid to ignore whether
> > last-status is there or not or even just remove it from the output so it
> > doesn’t even go into the CVS (it’s not needed if need to restore configs).
> 
> This is an FAQ, check the archives for many requests to do this kind of
> thing on many devices.
> 
> Basically, check @command table in mtrancid for the command that
> produces that output, identify the sub that deals with the output and
> add your custom bit in the body of the while loop:
> 
> To discard the changing part, something like
> 
> /^(set address=/S+/s/S+).*$/ &&
>   ProcessHistory(xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) && next;
> 
> To discard the line entirely:
> 
> /^(set address=/S+/s/S+).*$/ && next;
> 
> 
> I'm not familiar with Microtik to be able to say what goes in the
> ProcessHistory call marked "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx". If you want to use that
> first snippet, you can probably copy-paste the existing ProcessHistory
> call towards the end of the while loop.
> 
> It's very obvious with a little perl- and regex-fu how it should all go
> together
> 
> 
> Disclaimer: Those regexes may or may not work :-)  I typed them without
> having a reference handy and we all know that a regex is defined as "a
> programming construct that is guaranteed to fail the first 5 times you
> try get it right"
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > At last check for config on 1 router we’ve over 200 config versions all
> > with the same change flipping back and forth…
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Jason
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > 
> > 
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> 
> 
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> Alan McKinnon
> alan.mckinnon at gmail.com
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