[rancid] Cisco Mobility Express (WLC) woes (garbage in config...)

[vom513]

Hello,

I see this thread:

https://shrubbery.net/pipermail/rancid-discuss/2019-October/010838.html <https://shrubbery.net/pipermail/rancid-discuss/2019-October/010838.html>

Looks like pretty much what I am experiencing.  (Almost) Every time rancid runs for me - I get a “change” and some garbage characters in the config.  Here is an example diff email showing the strings flipping around:

—
Index: configs/ap-me
===================================================================
retrieving revision 1.6
diff -u -4 -r1.6 ap-me
@@ -478,9 +478,9 @@
  wlan radio 1 802.11a-only 
  wlan session-timeout 1 disable
  wlan flexconnect local-switching 1 enable
  wlan flexconnect learn-ipaddr 1 enable
- ø4ø4

+ >à4>à4

  wlan wmm require 1 
  wlan avc 1 visibility enable 
  wlan wgb broadcast-tagging disable 1 
  wlan wgb prp disable 1
—

Looks like in that thread, there were two solutions - making some changes to wlogin or ciscowlc.pm.  I’ve put these in manually as a test, but rancid is still detecting a change (almost) every time it runs.

I’m running rancid 3.9 on Debian 9 (running Debian’s packages, pulling from stretch-backports to get me from 3.6.x previously to 3.9).  “WLC” is really Mobility Express running on an 1832i - running latest stable 8.10.121.0

Did I misunderstand that thread ?  Anyone else has ran into this and has a fix ?

Many thanks in advance - I don’t want to remove this from rancid, but I can’t have the diff’s and emails filling up every hour either...
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