[rancid] Entries disappear and re appear.

[Vacheslav Zouhairy]

are you using dns, ptr, or hosts file?


>On Fri, 2019-04-12 at 08:40 -0700, Troy Beisigl wrote:
> A strange thing has happened after removing the ASA host from rancid
> and adding it under the name it should have been identified as, the
> issue has stopped. It has been 24 hours with 12 rancid runs and no
> issues on the ASA. So I am not sure how changing the name of the
> device would impact that, but it would see that this might be
> resolved for now. 
> 
> Still the random issue with the Mikrotiks though. 
> 
> -Troy
> 
> > On Apr 11, 2019, at 9:47 AM, heasley <heas at shrubbery.net> wrote:
> > 
> > Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 09:31:05AM -0700, Troy Beisigl:
> > > Hello everyone,
> > > 
> > > We have an issue whereby rancid is pulling configs and showing
> > > that an entry has disappeared and then the next config check the
> > > entry is back. This is happening on a Cisco ASA and also on a
> > > Mikrotik. 
> > > 
> > > For the Mikrotik, it shows that the console port name changed to
> > > nothing and then the next time shows that it came back as
> > > serial0. The name is not actually changing. 
> > > 
> > > For the ASA, the entry !BootFlash: BOOT variable = disk0:/asa917-
> > > 19-k8.bin will show in one config and the next time it shows
> > > !BootFlash: BOOT variable = 
> > > 
> > > The boot variable is not actually changing, so I have to wonder
> > > if this is a bug.
> > > 
> > > We are running rancid version 3.8.
> > > 
> > > Has anyone run into these issues and is there a fix for them?
> > 
> > the ASA is probably a bug in the ASA.  I've seen it on IOSXE.
> > 
> > no idea about the microtik; possibly rancid isnt able to disable
> > the
> > pager and thats causing some problem?
> > 
> > I'd manually collect the raw output repeatedly in an attempt to
> > catch it
> > occuring.  See FAQ S3Q2.
> 
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