[rancid] RANCID Router Login

[heasley]

Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 07:47:10PM +0000, Munoz-Persinger, Axel @ CSG - CSE:
> Hello,
> 
> Our organization uses RANCID for gathering data from our Cisco routers, but we recently faced an issue with a change we're trying to make.
> 
> We simply want to change what the address that the scripts use to log into the routers. Let's say in the routers.db file we have:
> Router1:cisco:up
> Router2:cisco:up
> Router3:cisco:up
> 
> We'd like to change it to:
> Router1.XYZ:cisco:up
> Router2.XYZ:cisco:up
> Router3.XYZ:cisco:up
> 
> 
> We didn't want to change the actual router names in the routers.db file, since this would most likely have other side effects like modifying the CVS. We tried changing clogin:750(ish) from
> if {[login $router $ruser $userpswd $passwd $enapasswd $cmethod $cyphertype]} {
> 
> to
> if {[login $router.XYZ $ruser $userpswd $passwd $enapasswd $cmethod $cyphertype]} {
> 
> However, by watching the tcpdump output, we see that it's still reaching out to the original address.
> 
> Do you have any ideas that could help us?

leave the old name and change the address it resolved to in dns/hostsfile.

or change the name and, assuming that you care about retaining the lineage,
update the cvs.