[rancid] Dell EMC OS10 switch

Howard Jones howie at thingy.com
Mon Nov 4 17:27:26 UTC 2019


On 04/11/2019 17:12, john heasley wrote:
> Mon, Nov 04, 2019 at 04:51:23PM +0000, Howard Jones:
>> I made a slightly-tweaked version of the Force10 type for our Dell
>> S3048-ON switches.
>>
>> In etc/rancid.types.conf:
>>
>> dell10;script;dell10rancid
>> dell10;login;clogin
>>
>> And then these are the differences from f10rancid:
>>
>> A few commands don't exist - removed those. The switch likes to beep
>> (send ctrl-G) in responses, so I strip control chars out. It also
>> doesn't have 'end' at the end of the config, so the default 'saw all
>> commands' stuff didn't work.
>>
>> Patch is for RANCID 3.7, but hopefully the gist is clear.
>>
> I haven't looked at Howard's, but will.  However, I am assuming that this
> is Dell NOS 10; maybe there is a difference from OS10 - i do not know, but
> maybe someone will enlighten me.  rancid 3.10 has a dnos10 type that is
> new from another user; maybe the two should be merged.

Mine is very much a minimum-viable-changes job, so if NOS10==OS10, the 
other version is likely better!

I am not the user for these switches, so I don't know much about them - 
I was just asked to get them working with our existing RANCID. Ours 
report version 10.4.1.1 (no prefix or suffix), for what it's worth.




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