[rancid] Re: Cisco WAE (WAAS) units

[john heasley]

Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 03:50:37PM -0500, James M Keller:
> On 2/16/2010 11:05 AM, James M Keller wrote:
>> I know there was some discussion in the archives about getting these  
>> working (even basic show run, writer term, etc).
>>
>> The problem is in rancid:WriteTerm sub, there is a block to compress  
>> '!' lines to a singe line, which ends up dropping the "! End of WAAS  
>> configuration" marker line and leaving the singe '!'.   At least in  
>> the 4.x WAAS code, there are two '!' lines and then the '! End of WAAS  
>> configuration" line.
>>
>> The fix is to  add an end of config check above this comment line  
>> compression function:
>>
>>         # Cisco WAAS WAE units prefix End of command line with '!'
>>
>>         # Neet to check for end of config here before skipping comments
>>
>>         if (/^! End of WAAS configuration/) {
>>
>>             $found_end = 1;
>>
>>             return(0);
>>
>>         }
>>
>>         # skip consecutive comment lines to avoid oscillating extra  
>> comment
>>
>>         # line on some access servers.  grrr.
>>
>>         if (/^!/) {

how about
if (/^!\s*$/) {

>>
>>             next if ($comment);
>>
>>             ProcessHistory("","","",$_);
>>
>>             $comment++;
>>
>>             next;
>>
>>         }
>>
>>
>> I haven't looked at the current code, this was against Debian lenny's  
>> version.
>>
>> -- 
>> ---
>> James M Keller
>>
>
> It looks like lenny is 2.3.2 code (listed as current on shrubbery.net),  
> so I can do diff's when I'm down adding int WAE support to the main  
> rancid script.  Central manager configs are retrievable from CLI.  At  
> best you could script the command to dump the database to XML on the CM  
> file system and then try more dbfile.xml to terminal.   But the admin  
> guide notes it's resource intensive to do the export.  At least I'm able  
> to grab the acceleration-engine configs and also grab WAAS specific info  
> as comment entries.  I'm likely going to have to tweak some of it to  
> parse out updating data like session counters, so not ready to dump a  
> diff yet.   Also added WCCP info as comments for both the WAEs and Cisco  
> IOS, as our shop is using the WCCP rather then in-line for these.   If  
> show ip wccp returns not eabled or invalid, etc it skips it like any  
> other invalid command for a platform.

if i understand this; i'd create a separate rancid script for this thing.