[rancid] Cisco devices and calculating percent free

[john heasley]

Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 01:03:54PM +0000, Pan Affa:
> I’m expecting the postscript filter because there more and more files in flash.  I need per-device per-tag postscript filter.
> 
> from Affa Pan

> > or, i have almost finished an option for a user-defined per-device type
> > postscript filter.  eg:

You can try ftp://ftp.shrubbery.net/pub/rancid/alpha/rancid-3.99.99.tar.gz

I've done minimal testing.  This will become 4.0 and does require
python >= 3.5, which is not exactly used yet and use that at your own risk.
If you do not deviate from the rancid 3.x features + this postscript feature,
there should be no ill effect.

> > +# example use of the postscript directive.  This will replace control
> > +# characters in the output with an ASCII representation.
> > +arbor-ctrl;script;rancid -t arbor-ctrl
> > +arbor-ctrl;login;anlogin
> > +arbor-ctrl;module;arbor
> > +arbor-ctrl;inloop;arbor::inloop
> > +arbor-ctrl;postscript;/bin/cat -v
> > +arbor-ctrl;command;arbor::ShowVersion;system version
> > +arbor-ctrl;command;arbor::ShowVersion;system file show
> > +arbor-ctrl;command;arbor::ShowHardware;system hardware
> > +arbor-ctrl;command;arbor::ShowHardware;system show
> > +arbor-ctrl;command;arbor::ShowFlash;system disk show
> > +arbor-ctrl;command;arbor::ShowConfig;config show