[rancid] patch suggestion for Cisco Mobile Express

[john heasley]

Sun, Oct 13, 2019 at 09:53:21AM +0000, 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

I can not answer that, but I am curious to see the diff that was produced
prior to this change.  Is it possible that it was terminal control characters
causing the changes?

> 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
>     
>     
> 
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