[rancid] Cisco ISE/ADE-OS backups

[heasley]

Thu, Jul 21, 2022 at 07:27:07PM +0000, AJ Schroeder:
> I'll just get this out of the way, I have inherited a customized version of RANCID (v2.3.8) that we use to backup a bunch of different devices from all kinds of manufacturers. From what I can tell the customization that has been done was to redact a bunch of "unstable" things to stop versions from incrementing. A bunch of different devices have been added into our rancid repo and things are humming along. That's not really my question, just wanted to level set.

You can upgrade to recent code and still use your altered versions by
adding them to rancid.types.conf with your own device type names (and
possibly some renaming of the scripts).

You might at time try the current versions to see if they have fixed
whatever output was oscillating from the 2.3.8 version.

> Has anyone successfully gotten Cisco ISE (a.k.a. ADE-OS) working with RANCID? Someone had written a "iselogin" script and "ciscoise" interpreter working but it was quite unstable and had tons of duplicate output. So I wrote a different "ciscoise" script to use "clogin" rather than having yet another login script. I can get certain parts of the output but the output of "show run" seems to be sent all at once in one big blob. I am not sure how I would go about pulling that apart, so I figured I'd ask if anyone has gotten Cisco ISE working with RANCID before I sink more time and effort into this.

I know nothing about ade-os, but I am not sure that I understand what you
mean by 'one big blob'.  Do you mean it is one line?  To have it output
w/o a pager is perfect.  maybe an example or more information about the
format/representation of the config