[rancid] Nexus 1000v switch-router

[Charles T. Brooks]

Thanks for the . /etc/rancid/rancid.conf trick!  I should have thought of that.  I'm new to RANCiD and to Cisco UCS and this particular switch, but I know Cisco's other routers and switches pretty well, and I can code.

>would you show me the error that the cli produces for this command?

nx1k-03# show environment temperature
                 ^
% Invalid command at '^' marker.
nx1k-03#

The Nexus 1000V switch is virtual, so it lives in a cloudy spoogeball of UCS virtuosity, and sort of floats around the redundant UCS chassis without having any specific environment or hardware.  I think Cisco ripped out all the "show environment" commands completely; they don't show up in the help if I do "show ?" despite using the admin account/network-admin role.

BTW, you're absolutely right that the commands listed /etc/rancid/rancid.types.base include "show vlan" for both the cisco and cisco-nx device types.  However, in practice, I can look at the configs stored in git and when I use the cisco device type the output of show vlan is present (prefixed with !VLAN) and when I use the cisco-nx device type that output is entirely missing, and there is no !VLAN prefix to be found.  Hold on, I'll grep it to be sure I'm not blind - nope, there is no !VLAN prefix in the config retrieved by rancid 3.4.1 using device type cisco-nx.  And that's a good thing, a desirable behavior in my opinion.

--Charlie
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From: heasley [heas at shrubbery.net]
Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2016 1:21 PM
To: Charles T. Brooks
Cc: rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
Subject: Re: [rancid] Nexus 1000v switch-router

Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 04:48:25PM +0000, Charles T. Brooks:
> I'm using rancid v3.4.1, which I think is the latest?  Anyway, I had to add /usr/libexec/rancid to my PATH, but then I got this:

or ". rancid.conf" will set the PERL5LIB for you.

> HIT COMMAND:nx1k-03# show environment temperature
>     In ShowEnvTemp: nx1k-03# show environment temperature
> nx1k-03.hbcs.org: show environment temperature failed: -1

would you show me the error that the cli produces for this command?
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