[rancid] How to configure rancid for stacked switches ?

[heasley]

Fri, Mar 02, 2018 at 09:16:33AM +0100, DELOISON, Clement:
> Hi again,
> 
> I'm not able to do a hrancid... I'm sorry for that but I'm a french student
> and I'm new at rancid configuration, it's the first time I use it. I may
> apologize too for my english which is not perfect at all.

your english is fine; stop appologizing for it.

>  Well, this is what I had when I tried hrancid ; "-bash: hrancid: command
> not found" (I suppose that I have to install packages or something like
> this ?)

if you are using bash, you should be able to "source" rancid.conf to create
a usable PATH that includes the location of hrancid, etc.
". /path/to/rancid.conf"

> For the configuration, this is what I have :
> 
> There are 2 of them, which are stacked (I don't know if it's the right word
> but it's like you have 2 switches in one with only one IP address)
> My version of RANCID is : rancid-3.4.1

There have been changes to hp support since then; I suggest that you install
rancid 3.7.

but, also tell us what model of switches these are, HP OEMs a lot of it's
network hardware.

> Thank you very much for your feedback ! You help me a lot in my project !
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> 2018-03-02 1:02 GMT+01:00 heasley <heas at shrubbery.net>:
> 
> > Thu, Mar 01, 2018 at 01:09:44PM -0500, doug.hughes at keystonenap.com:
> > > try hrancid -d -t hp <device>
> > >
> > > Then we'd be able to tell a little more about what's going on.
> >
> > and what version of rancid.  what model switch.  etc.
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: "DELOISON, Clement" <cdeloison at cora.fr>
> > > To: rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
> > > Sent: Thu, 01 Mar 2018 13:04
> > > Subject: [rancid] How to configure rancid for stacked switches ?
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Can you help me with my problem ? I can't make RANCID works with my
> > stacked
> > > HP switches. When I check logs, I have this :
> > >
> > > Trying to get all of the configs.
> > > couldn't compile regular expression pattern: parentheses () not balanced
> > >     while executing
> > > "expect {
> > >         -re $reprompt   {}
> > >         -re "\[\n\r]+"  { exp_continue }
> > >     }"
> > >     (procedure "run_commands" line 12)
> > >     invoked from within
> > > "run_commands $prompt $command"
> > >     ("foreach" body line 160)
> > >     invoked from within
> > > "foreach router [lrange $argv $i end] {
> > >     set router [string tolower $router]
> > >     send_user "$router\n"
> > >
> > >     # device timeout
> > >     set timeout [find t..."
> > >     (file "/usr/local/rancid/bin/hlogin" line 654)
> > > xx.xxx.xxx.xxx: missed cmd(s): all commands
> > > xx.xxx.xxx.xxx: End of run not found
> > > ;
> > >
> > > I don't really understand what is the problem and what I can do to fix
> > that.
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > > --
> > > Clément Deloison
> > > Apprenti Réseau
> > > cdeloison at cora.fr
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> 
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> Clément Deloison
> Apprenti Réseau
> cdeloison at cora.fr
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