[rancid] F5 Rancid | BIGIP 12.0 | missed cmd(s)

[heasley]

Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 10:47:32PM +0000, Daniel Kerse:
> On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 7:36 AM heasley <heas at shrubbery.net> wrote:
> 
> > Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 12:40:10AM +1200, Daniel Kerse:
> > > Hello Shaun et.al.,
> > >
> > > Are you playing with the TERM environment variable at all?
> > > Have you tried enabling debug on your cron job and then (re)checking:
> > >      1. the logs?
> > >      2. the resulting .raw files?
> > >
> > > I'm also running version 3.2 (the latest available under EPEL) with
> > > some F5s of various vintage.
> > >
> > > Firstly to recap what is already known by this mailing list:
> > > - circa BIG-IP v9.x -> v10.x the tmsh shell was introduced in addition
> > > to the pre-existing bigpipe.
> > > - circa BIG-IP v10.x -> v11.x the old bigpipe shell was removed.
> > > - (At least for BIG-IP v11.x and earlier) you must set TERM=vt100-w in
> > > order to run some commands. This problem would only become apparent
> >
> > Do you mean that it required that specific term type, or just that it
> > required that term be set to something other than dumb or network?
> >
> 
> That specific terminal type is required in some cases. I think if the
> prompt plus the command gets longer than something like 80 characters you
> start getting control characters showing up in the middle of that line
> which causes a regex match to fail.
> 
> This has been the topic of previous discussion:
> http://www.shrubbery.net/pipermail/rancid-discuss/2014-July/007767.html
> http://www.shrubbery.net/pipermail/rancid-discuss/2015-February/008038.html
> http://www.shrubbery.net/pipermail/rancid-discuss/2015-July/008603.html

is there a terminal type that omits the screen manipulation junk (esc codes)
that is recognized by the f5?  eg: dumb, network, ...  and set the terminal
width to 132.