[rancid] Restoring Cisco Wireless Lan Controller from rancid?

[Daniel Schmidt]

>But I’m wondering if the archived config produced by rancid is something I
can trust as an actual backup. Has anyone tried restoring the config from
rancid?

Yup.  Worked 4 me.


On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 4:43 PM, Elliot Wilen <elliot.wilen at aechelon.com>wrote:

>  Hello,
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> I’ve been playing with rancid and with the scripts for ciscowlc that have
> been posted to this list. There was a major variant posted at
> http://www.shrubbery.net/pipermail/rancid-discuss/2012-March/006276.html,
> however I’ve been working with the “mainstream” scripts which I found most
> recently at
> http://www.shrubbery.net/pipermail/rancid-discuss/2013-July/006971.htmlThe only variations I’ve found in the main line are:
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> wlogin: control paging with set length0/term length 0, vs. config paging
> disable
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> ciscowlc: show running-config, vs. show run-config commands
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> Since the second option in each script seems to work on our device, I’ve
> opted to use those. Our device is running software version 7.0.220.0.
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> About the only other wrinkle I found was that I had to “add autoenable
> <device> 1” for the device within the .cloginrc.
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> Now wlogin works fine, and rancid-run completes successfully. But I’m not
> sure the archived configuration is really usable as-is for restoring the
> configuration. When I compare it to the file I get when I upload the config
> via tftp, I see:
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> tftp’d file uses “config” for each line (this is trivial)
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> a number of configuration lines in the tftp’d file don’t seem to have an
> exact equivalent
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> a few odd lines appear in the rancid config archive such as:
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> “Not supported”
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> “Max no. of clients 0Max no. of clients 0Max no. of clients 0”
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> I’ve verified that these differences are from the output of “show
> run-config commands.” I.e., it’s Cisco’s fault.
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> But I’m wondering if the archived config produced by rancid is something I
> can trust as an actual backup. Has anyone tried restoring the config from
> rancid?
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> I wonder if I might be better off having rancid trigger tftp (ftp, sftp,
> etc.) and then grab the file. This page has some ideas that might be
> incorporated:
> http://networkengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/3246/is-there-an-automatable-way-to-backup-the-configuration-from-a-wlc-2504-controll
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> Thoughts?
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> --
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> Elliot Wilen
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> Sr. System Administrator
>
> Aechelon Technology
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> E-Mail: elliot.wilen at aechelon.com
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