[rancid] Rancid for other types of devices

[Peter Serwe]

Without mentioning the fact that rancid can sort of be used as centralized
auth,
I'd make a strong recommendation to use some sort of central auth with the
HP OA/ILO.

Personally, I'm forklifting my last one out fairly shortly.

Peter

2010/11/8 Daniel Rich <drich at employees.org>

>  Jethro R Binks wrote:
>
> On Fri, 5 Nov 2010, Daniel Rich wrote:
>
>
>
>  I have been a rancid user for several years, mostly on Cisco and Foundry
> devices.  One of our admins walked into my cube this morning and asked
> about using it on other types of devices and I wanted to see if anyone
> had beat me to it before I spent the next few weeks fiddling with the
> code to make it do what I want... :-)
>
> Has anyone attempted (or more importantly succeeded) in getting rancid
> working with any of the following?
>
>     * HP On-Board Administrator (controller for their blade chassis,
>       also contains the switch configs)
>
>
>  Which product do you mean exactly here?  We have c7000 blade chassis,
> although the server team chose the bladenetworks GbE switches rather than
> the real Cisco blade switch offering, but it is managed completely
> separately from the blade chassis.
>
>
>
> HP Onboard Administrator is the chassis administrator interface.  It allows
> you to manage and configure the enclosed blades, switches, SAN hardware,
> etc.  It has an ssh interface that allows you to access the configuration
> that would be well suited for use with rancid.
>
> http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/blades/components/onboard/index.html
>
> I should mention, I don't deal with OA or ILO myself, I'm just going to be
> the one attempting to build a rancid interface to it if I can't find anyone
> else who has already tried.
>
>
>      * HP ILO
>
>
>  What configuration does the iLO have that it is worth rancid pulling?
>
>
>
> I believe the big thing for us is the user authentication config.  But I
> know that there are other bits that we would like to both track and be able
> to update using some sort of config management system, rancid being one
> possibility.
>
>
>       * Network Appliance Filers
>
> All of the above have a CLI interface that is similar to a routers, it's
> just a matter of getting the right commands into the scripts - I hope.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
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>
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