[rancid] Re: .cloginrc question. How to use wild card?

[john heasley]

Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 12:27:21PM -0600, Sam Munzani:
> Team,
> 
> I have my devices named like this. xxx-rtr01, xxx-rtr02, xxx-rtr03 etc 
> all the way up to 10. routers 1 through 6 supports telnet method only 
> while 7 through 10 supports ssh only. Is there a clean way to define 
> these 2 groups in .cloginrc? I tried following and captured the error 
> messages.

its a glob & first match.

add method xxx-rtr0\[1-6]	{telnet}
add method xxx-rtr*		{ssh}

the quoting is necessary to avoid tcl's [] grammar.

> *Experiment # 1: .cloginrc section*
> add user test*[1-2]     {admin}
> add password test*[1-2] {password}
> add method test*[1-2] telnet
> add autoenable test*[1-2] 1
> 
> $ clogin test-rtr01
> 
> Error: invalid command name "1-2"
> 
> *Experiment # 2: *
> add user test*{*\[1-6]} {admin}
> add password test*{*\[1-6]} {password}
> add method test*{*\[1-6]} telnet
> add autoenable test*{*\[1-6]} 1
> 
> $ clogin test-rtr01
> test-rtr01
> 
> Error: no password for test-rtr01 in /opt/rancid/.cloginrc.
> 
> *Experiment # 3: *
> add user test{*\[1-6]} {admin}
> add password test{*\[1-6]} {password}
> add method test{*\[1-6]} telnet
> add autoenable test{*\[1-6]} 1
> 
> $ clogin test-rtr01
> test-rtr01
> 
> Error: no password for test-rtr01 in /opt/rancid/.cloginrc.
> 
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> sam

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