[rancid] problems with PowerConnect switches

[Wayne Eisenberg]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: 'heasley' [mailto:heas at shrubbery.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2018 1:13 PM
> To: Wayne Eisenberg <Wayne.Eisenberg at CarolinasIT.com>
> Cc: 'heasley' <heas at shrubbery.net>; 'rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net'
> <rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net>
> Subject: Re: [rancid] problems with PowerConnect switches
> 
> Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 06:51:01AM +0000, Wayne Eisenberg:
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: heasley [mailto:heas at shrubbery.net]
> > > Sent: Friday, December 07, 2018 3:06 PM
> > > To: Wayne Eisenberg <Wayne.Eisenberg at CarolinasIT.com>
> > > Cc: 'rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net' <rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net>
> > > Subject: Re: [rancid] problems with PowerConnect switches
> > >
> > > Fri, Dec 07, 2018 at 10:18:54AM +0000, Wayne Eisenberg:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I have a PowerConnect 5448 that I am having trouble with. If I run
> > > > the steps
> > > manually it's fine, but using rancid-run always fails.
> > > >
> > > > The router.db file is:
> > > > pc5448;powerconnect;up
> > > >
> > > > The etc/rancid.types.conf section is:
> > > >
> > > > powerconnect;script;rancid -t powerconnect
> > > > powerconnect;login;clogin powerconnect;module;dell
> > > > powerconnect;inloop;dell::inloop
> > > > powerconnect;command;dell::GetSystem;show system
> > > > powerconnect;command;dell::GetConf;show running-config
> > > >
> > > > and all the info in .clogin is fine.
> > > >
> > > > If I manually run clogin for that switch, it has no problems. Then
> > > > running
> > > 'show system' and 'show running-config' gives no problems.
> >
> > >
> > > meaning that
> > > clogin -c 'show system;show running-config' hostname completes w/o a
> > > timeout?  if so, that implies to me that either a pager is involving
> > > itself in an unrecognized manner or there is other unrecognized
> > > input preventing it from finding the prompt reliably, possibly due
> > > to TERM settings (and poor defaults).  that could be tested, or it
> > > might debugging to, run that clogin from cron to see how it acts w/o a
> terminal.
> > >
> >
> > That results in:
> >
> > User Name:admin
> > Password:************
> >
> > console#
> > console# terminal length 0
> > % Unrecognized command
> >
> > What is issuing the 'terminal length 0' command?
> 
> clogin.  how is the pager disabled on that device?

'terminal datadump' for both devices

Interestingly enough, the 'show system' and 'show version' outputs of both switches look amazingly similar to each other. I don't know who copied who, but the command sets look very similar.

Wayne