[rancid] Pointers for RANCID Script

[Alan McKinnon]

On 22/10/2015 19:37, Ken Celenza wrote:
> Alan,
>  
> Thanks, I don't see anything that would need to be re-ordered, but point
> taken on the passwords. I will look to address that. 

I take it you know how to do it? The Cisco script is full of examples,
but does need a decent knowledge of and comfort with regexes



>  
> *Sent:* Thursday, October 22, 2015 at 3:02 AM
> *From:* "Alan McKinnon" <alan.mckinnon at gmail.com>
> *To:* rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
> *Subject:* Re: [rancid] Pointers for RANCID Script
> On 22/10/2015 03:39, Ken Celenza wrote:
>> I put together Rancid for Riverbed based on rblogin from
>> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.rancid/2697/match=riverbed by
>> Bill Jacqmein and panrancid script.
>>
>> I was hoping I could get some feedback on what mistakes I have made. I
>> posted the code here:
>> https://github.com/itdependsnetworks/Rancid-Riverbed
> 
> 
> 
> It looks very much like a stripped down version of the original Cisco
> parser - I recognise the pattern :-)
> 
> I'm not familiar with that hardware at all, so can't comment on the data
> fetched and what your script does with it, or if rblogin is suitable. So
> I looked it over generally and have only two comments:
> 
> 
> On line 36, this:
> print "rancid 3.1\n";
> probably wants changing to the actual script name and current version.
> 
> 
> sub ShowConfig pumps all data straight into ProcessHistory() unchanged.
> It doesn't do any re-ordering of lists, or redact sensitive information
> (with $filter_pwds) at all. I would be very happy to see a kit vendor
> get their act together and provide sane output to "show configuration",
> but somehow I doubt it. Are you certain this kit gives output that never
> requires tweaking, and never contains any sensitive information at all?
> 
> 
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