[rancid] Reporting subsets of Rancid data.

[Daniel Kerse]

This is totally supported. It’s simply a matter of arranging your device
groups and email aliases in a way that meets your teams requirements.

Speaking of which, how are people maintaining their mailing lists for
Rancid these days? Is majordomo still best of breed here? I looked at it a
while ago but my rancid servers can’t receive email, only send. So I don’t
think that’s going to work.

Part of me still wants to me email subscriptions more of a self-service
thing and it’s nice to be able to do that without editing the aliases file.


On Fri, 9 Apr 2021 at 4:34 AM, Dan Anderson <dan.w.anderson at gmail.com>
wrote:

> If you created an additional set of groups, you could do a group per
> campus and send the reports/diffs for each group or groups to different
> e-mail addresses based on the entries in your /etc/aliases file. That's
> 100% supported and wouldn't change during upgrades. People who wanted to
> see all of the reports/diffs would be in all of the group aliases and those
> who didn't would only be in a subset.
>
>
> Something along the lines of
>
> campus1_switches: boss_person, campus1_people
> campus2_switches: boss_person, campus2_people, campus1_people
>
> -- Dan
> On Apr 8, 2021, 12:11 PM -0400, Chris Davis <Chris.Davis at principia.edu>,
> wrote:
>
> We have 2 major campuses, and we've always reported our config diffs and
> pretty much everything else to all members of our small network team.  All
> the switch configs are co-located in the same directory, etc.  But now, one
> campus is complaining that they don't want to see all the config diffs from
> the other because it's difficult to know if they have data in the config
> diff report.  I was asked if it was possible to split the report into 2,
> one for each campus.  The IP addresses are such that it would be possible
> to identify them easily.  But rancid just seems to be focused on reporting
> what is in the directory.  I'm not sure I'd want to go to great effort to
> make this kind of thing happen, just to have it break every time I update
> Rancid.  Our boss is keen on network knowing everything on either campus
> (we back one another up to a high level of degree).  Is it easy to carve up
> the reporting based on IP ranges and provide different email addresses for
> each set of reports without impacting the future upgrading process?   I
> just want to be able to say I investigated it, but I think the boss would
> be against it anyway.
>
> Thanks.
> Chris
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