[rancid] rancid support for Brocade Fabric OS

[Jethro R Binks]

FabricOS is the SAN stuff.  Then there's the network device OS, which is 
mostly supported in the foundry/flogin (Brocade bought Foundry years ago).  
It varies a bit across devices, at the moment two similar-but-different 
code bases are being integrated, but it is superficially the same and 
config file is cisco-ish.

I think if brocadelogin/etc is being written for the SAN product line 
FabricOS, it should be explicit about that, as otherwise there will be 
confusion to anyone coming to Brocade networking in the last several 
years, selecting this new brocadelogin, and not realising they actually 
want the Foundry stuff.  Call it brocadesanlogin etc?

Jethro.


On Wed, 17 Feb 2016, John Heasley wrote:

> Wed, Feb 03, 2016 at 06:37:45PM +0000, David Ahrens:
> > Hi Elliot,
> > 
> > I have some old Brocade 200 SAN switches running version 5.2.2 of Fabric OS.   The brocaderancid script seems to run properly but for some reason doesn't recognize/capture the out of the commands.  The attached log file shows the output of the switch commands,   any ideas?
> 
> So, how many different O/S's does brocade have?  FabricOS, what else?
> 
> I've cleaned-up the brocadelogin script a little bit and imported it as
> brlogin.  This could probably be cleaned-up further, remove ExtremeOS-specific
> stuff etc, but I have nothing to test against.
> 
> ftp://ftp.shrubbery.net/pub/rancid/alpha/rancid-3.4.99.tar.gz
> 
> > Thanks,
> > David
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Rancid-discuss [mailto:rancid-discuss-bounces at shrubbery.net] On Behalf Of Elliot Wilen
> > Sent: Friday, January 29, 2016 11:00 AM
> > To: rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
> > Subject: Re: [rancid] rancid support for Brocade Fabric OS
> > 
> > Comparing Howard's version of the script to mine, I see a few differences, one of which may be a modification I made. Instead of using configShow directly, my script uses configUpload -all and saves it to a local file on the switch, followed by configShow -l to display that file. I think this yields a more complete configuration similar to what one would use to back up the switch via ftp.
> > 
> > His version also has a couple additions relative to whatever the common source was.
> > 
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Jethro R Binks, Network Manager,
Information Services Directorate, University Of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK

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