[rancid] Re: Dell Powerconnect switches - problem and suggestion

[Jeremy Singletary]

You'll also need a modified rancid-fe that recognizes the dell string in
router.db and calls drancid.

Did you look into what John Heasley suggested previously about trying
the SMC scripts?

-jeremy

On 08/14/09, Josh Rogers <2009 at tybox.net> said:
> 
>    What  steps are necessary to monitor Dell switches?  Download drancid,
>    dlogin  and  put  them  in /opt/local/libexec/rancid with other rancid
>    executables,  then  what?   Update router.db and specify a device as a
>    'dell' instead of 'cisco' or 'juniper'
>    Is that basically it?
> 
>    On    Fri,    Aug   14,   2009   at   9:45   PM,   Jeremy   Singletary
>    <[1]jeremys at rickyninja.net> wrote:
> 
>      Looks  like  there  are some invisible characters showing up in the
>      pager
>      in  newer  Dells.  Download this version of dlogin, and let us know
>      if it
>      resolves the issue.
>      [2]http://www.rickyninja.net/rancid/dlogin-dev
>      Thanks,
>      Jeremy
> 
>    On 08/14/09, George Hills <[3]george at brightbox.co.uk> said:
>    > Hi,
>    >
>    >  My  thanks to Jeremy Singletary for his drancid/dlogin scripts, and
>    Nate
>    > Steffen for his updates and email help.
>    >
>    > I've had a couple of different problems trying to get RANCID working
>    > with some Dell Powerconnect switches recently.
>    >
>    >  I'm  using  rancid  2.3.2a7 from the Ubuntu package on Ubuntu Hardy
>    amd64.
>    >
>    >  My  Powerconnects  are  6248s running 2.0.1.2 and 2.2.0.3 and 5324s
>    running
>    > 2.0.0.40.
>    >
>    >  The 6248s had an easy problem - the dlogin script is sending "exit"
>    and
>    >  expecting to get out, but that only takes it out of enable mode. It
>    then
>    > needs to send "quit" (*not* "exit" again) afterwards to get out.
>    >
>    > I bodged this by just adding a line:
>    >
>    > strowger at beast:~$ diff dlogin [4]dlogin.gh
>    > 672a673
>    > >     dsend "quit\r"
>    >
>    >
>    > On the 5348 (where "exit" from enable mode logs you off...sigh...) I
>    > think there's a problem with the pager. My "more" prompts look like
>    >
>    > "More: <space>,  Quit: q, One line: <return> "
>    >
>    >  and dlogin freezes when it sees one. Other than that it works fine.
>    I
>    >  guess there's a problem with the regex but I can't work out what it
>    is.
>    > Would be grateful for any suggestions.
>    >
>    > Cheers.
>    >
>    > --
>    > George Hills
>    > Systems Administrator
>    > Brightbox
>    > [5]http://www.brightbox.co.uk/
>    >
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> References
> 
>    1. mailto:jeremys at rickyninja.net
>    2. http://www.rickyninja.net/rancid/dlogin-dev
>    3. mailto:george at brightbox.co.uk
>    4. http://dlogin.gh/
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