[rancid] Re: RANCID with Nexus 7000

Ryan West rwest at zyedge.com
Tue Apr 27 12:52:47 UTC 2010


Ian,

> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 8:48 AM
> To: rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
> Subject: [rancid] Re: RANCID with Nexus 7000
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm using the nxrancid file and am able to successfully connect to the
> 7k using nxrancid -d device_ip.  However when I run rancid via cron for
> all my devices, including this one, it doesn't work. In the router.db
> file I added 7k_ip:cisco:up but I'm not sure that is enough to tell
> rancid to use the nxrancid file versus the standard cisco rancid file. I
> read the router.db(5) man page and there is no mention of how to do this
> other than specifying Cisco for the type.
> 

You'll need to adjust your rancid-fe file and call to it with something like 7k_ip:nexus:up, assuming nexus is how you have it defined in rancid-fe.

-ryan


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