[rancid] Merge OpenGear vendor-provided rancid scripts with official RANCID release for future?
john heasley
heas at shrubbery.net
Wed Nov 27 03:01:58 UTC 2019
Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 08:53:02PM +0000, Ni Ne:
> OpenGear has published rancid and login files that work with their console servers.
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> The page describing it is here:
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> https://opengear.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/216369543-RANCID-Support
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> The direct link to their code is:
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> https://opengear.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/article_attachments/209925523/opengear-rancid-v2.1.zip
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> I just implemented their scripts, replacing very old custom hack-jobs I put together years ago, using some other existing login scripts as a base. Their scripts handle the prompts better than my legacy code.
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> I have successfully tested their code on ~150 OpenGear console servers of various models (IM7200, IM4xxx, CMx) and on various software versions - 3.16 through 4.5
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> There are some tweaks I made, like running their show version code first. And that line is not commented out in the resulting output file. But beyond that, it works fine.
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> Would it be possible for their code to be reviewed and merged with official rancid source for easier future use?
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sure. I've asked them for permission.
It will have to be brought up to date with the current code and I will need
your (and/or other's) help to test those changes.
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