[rancid] patch suggestion for Cisco Mobile Express

[Piegorsch, Weylin William]

Should an autonomous Aeronet AP have its config in rancid through wlc8?  I'd had success (years ago, on older version of rancid and AeroOS) with type cisco.  If this is a Aeronet AP on a WLC, then wouldn’t simply backing up the WLC be sufficient?
weylin

On 10/8/19, 7:51 AM, "Bjarne Saltbæk" <Bjarne.Saltbaek at sinch.com> wrote:

    Hi again.
    
    I just realized that a patch in ciscowlc.pm would make more sense:
    
    --- cut ---
    --- /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/rancid/ciscowlc.pm.org 2019-10-08 13:30:29.894650701 +0200
    +++ /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/rancid/ciscowlc.pm     2019-10-08 13:48:38.125686723 +0200
    @@ -137,6 +137,9 @@
            next if (/^\s*rogue ap classify/);
            next if (/^\s*rogue (adhoc|client) (alert|unknown)/i);
            next if (/^\s*interface nat-address management set -?[0-9]{4,}\./);
    +       next if (/^\s*Config generation may take some time .../);
    +       next if (/^\s*# WLC Config Begin/);
    +       next if (/^\s*# WLC Config End/);
    
            $linecnt++;
    
    --- cut ---
    
    
    -- 
    Bjarne Saltbæk
    System Administrator
    Sinch Denmark
    
    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Bjarne Saltbæk
    > Sent: Tuesday, 8 October 2019 13.12
    > To: rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
    > Subject: patch suggestion for Cisco Mobile Express
    > 
    > Hi
    > 
    > I am using the 3.9 version for backing up Cisco Mobility Express config on a
    > Cisco Aironet 1830.
    > 
    > I was getting random garbage in the config by using
    > 
    > /etc/rancid/rancid.types.base
    > cisco-wlc8;script;rancid -t cisco-wlc8
    > cisco-wlc8;login;wlogin
    > cisco-wlc8;timeout;120
    > cisco-wlc8;module;ciscowlc
    > cisco-wlc8;inloop;ciscowlc::inloop
    > cisco-wlc8;command;ciscowlc::ShowUdi;show udi cisco-
    > wlc8;command;ciscowlc::ShowSysinfo;show sysinfo cisco-
    > wlc8;command;ciscowlc::ShowConfig;show run-config commands
    > 
    > changed ShowConfig from run-config commands to
    > 
    > cisco-wlc8;command;ciscowlc::ShowConfig;show run-config startup-
    > commands
    > 
    > But then ended up with new dates on every diff.
    > Fixed it by patching wlogin
    > --- cut ---
    > --- wlogin.bak  2019-10-08 12:14:31.085325057 +0200
    > +++ wlogin      2019-10-08 12:58:13.325178327 +0200
    > @@ -684,6 +684,8 @@
    >      for {set i 0} {$i < $num_commands} { incr i} {
    >         send -- "[subst -nocommands [lindex $commands $i]]\r"
    >         expect {
    > +           -re "^# WLC Config Begin.*\r\n"     { exp_continue }
    > +           -re "^# WLC Config End.*\r\n"       { exp_continue }
    >             -re "\b+"                           { exp_continue }
    >             -re "^\[^\n\r *]*$reprompt"         { send_user -- "$expect_out(buffer)"
    >                                                 }
    > --- cut ---
    > 
    > Feel free to add this to the upstream code.
    > 
    > BR,
    > Bjarne
    > 
    > 
    > 
    > --
    > Bjarne Saltbæk
    > System Administrator
    > Sinch Denmark