[rancid] [patch] fluctuating data from cisco-nx

[Pavel Korovin]

On 08/18, heasley wrote:
> Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 10:16:51PM +0300, Pavel Korovin:
> > There are several issues with fluctuating data received from Cisco Nexus
> > platform (55xx, 77xx):
> > 
> > * if PAR_COUNT is > 1 (by default, it's 5) and rancid simultaneously runs
> >   "show version" in multiple VDCs on the same device, bootflash size
> 
> slot0 too?  or just bootflash?
 
I don't have Nexus devices with slot0 size > 0, but I suppose it should
be the same story.

> >   values hop between 0 and actual size, with each invocation producing cvs
> >   commits and change notifications. To reproduce, run "show ver"
> >   simultaneously on multiple VDCs. It seems that NX-OS requires exclusive
> >   access to hardware to determine the size of bootflash and fails during
> >   concurrent access. I cannot offer any better solution than just
> >   providing a knob to filter out bootflash size fluctuations by setting
> >   FILTER_OSC = ALL.

> > -	# Drop accounting.log
> > -	/\s+accounting\.log$/ && next;
> > +	# Drop accounting logs
> > +	/\s+accounting.log.*/ && next;
> 
> was removal of the escape of the . intentional?

Yes. I don't remember if earlier versions of NX-OS use
accounting_log or accounting.log naming, so it will filter both.
 
-- 
With best regards,
Pavel Korovin