[rancid] rancid : how to filter clogin -x or -c outcome

['heasley']

Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 10:20:21AM +0200, alligator94:
> Thanks for the info. 
> I would need some help as I am unable to make par(1) work.
> My tests run on a test system.
> In the same directory as clogin, I have created a file named "infile" which
> contains the command to run. It contains 2 lines
> # ( to indicate that the next one is a command)
> clogin  -c "show users" hostname
> 
> Then I run ./par infile. Nothing happens but 3 empty log files are
> created(par.log....)
> I have tried different combinations without success.

I had a bug in quote handling.  Please try
ftp://ftp.shrubbery.net/pub/rancid/alpa/rancid-3.2.99.tar.gz which will
likely be rancid 3.3 very soon.

[sorry that it took so long to look into this problem.]

> I have not found any sample except the one coming with the man page which
> doesn't help me.
> 
> Regards,
> Gilles
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: heasley [mailto:heas at shrubbery.net] 
> Sent: lundi 20 avril 2015 18:13
> To: alligator94
> Cc: rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
> Subject: Re: [rancid] rancid : how to filter clogin -x or -c outcome
> 
> Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 09:35:30AM +0200, alligator94:
> > Hi,
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > I very often use clogin -x or clogin -c to perform mass configuration 
> > updates. My concern is that clogin doesn't analyze the outcome of the 
> > command passed with -x or -d, so there is no easy way to know if the 
> > command has been successfully accepted by the device . For instance, 
> > some old cisco ios don't accept some commands.
> > 
> > I have tried to use the clogin debug (-d) option, but it generates a 
> > huge amount of lines. I have also tested to open a log file (I am 
> > using teraterm) before running clogin, then to do a search but, it is 
> > not really easy because each time that you find an error condition, 
> > you need to look backward in the file to know which host the error message
> reports to.
> 
> Would par(1) help?
> 
> > I have also looked at the -s option but it looks complex to me.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > What would be nice to have is a way to pass a file  to clogin as a 
> > parameter which would contain a list of keyword that you want to be 
> > extracted from the outcome.
> > 
> > I am thinking to some words like :
> > 
> > "Invalid"
> > 
> > "Error"
> > 
> > "timeout"
> 
> extracted from the rest of the o/p in what manner?
> 
> > If some of them are trapped during the clogin run, then they could be 
> > stored in a file $hostname_date_time.err.log
> 
> I think par(1) would indeed help you here.  you could egrep the stuff you
> want to extract (or awk, etc).
> 
> >  
> > 
> > Maybe there is an easy way to do it but I am not skilled with expect. 
> > 
> > Any help or comment is welcomed.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Gilles
> > 
> 
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