[rancid] Couple of very general questions.

[heasley]

Fri, May 18, 2018 at 09:31:21AM +0800, James Andrewartha:
> On 18/05/18 05:53, heasley wrote:
> >> The other option we're looking at is Extreme.  I see that it is managed by the standard clogin (according to the Rancid docs) and just wondered if there was anything to be aware of with interfacing to their gear.
> > 
> > I can't comment on fortinet, but the extreme ought to work.  however, it has
> > been at least a year since I've had feed back about one.
> 
> I have newish Extreme switches (X440-G2 running XOS 22.4) and they work
> fine with rancid. The only problem I have is sometimes the commands show
> up in the output, eg:
> 
>   #Slot 1: state
>   #
> + show configuration
> + #

that implies to me that clogin is out of sync with cli.  Its likely
that you need the xlogin; I can give you a complete one, and you just
have to update paths and such.

>   # Module devmgr configuration.
> 
> I am using rancid 2.3.8 (yes, I know, I'm still running Debian jessie)
> but I grabbed the most recent xrancid that wasn't modularised ($Id:
> xrancid.in 3018 2015-01-11 05:51:49Z heas $) and it didn't fix the
> problem. I didn't think about upgrading clogin though. Is that likely to
> help or should I just look at upgrading rancid entirely to get the
> modular xrancid with xlogin?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -- 
> James Andrewartha
> Network & Projects Engineer
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