[rancid] Email notification with RANCID

[Hagen, Skye]

We took a completely different tact on notification. We backup over 1600
devices nightly, and only want notification if there is a problem, and in
some cases, only when there is a major problem.

We use syslog with Splunk for a majority of our reporting. What I did was to
wrap 'rancid-run' in a shell script that will take the logs, massage them,
and send the results to syslog.

We have created a number of Splunk reports, such as a report that tells us
if there are excessive errors, or if a backup has had successive failures.

If anyone is interested, I have attached the script.

Skye.



On 1/16/12 5:58 PM, "Michael Lee" <michael.lee at mincom.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Really appreciate your reply. Yeah, however I am trying to list out all the
> devices and backup status in a list. By the way, do you know anyway to send
> the configuration diff using html format in an EMAIL similar to what we see on
> VIEWVC?
> 
> 
> BR,
> Michael
> -----Original Message-----
> From: shouldbe q931 [mailto:shouldbeq931 at gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 2:55 AM
> To: Michael Lee
> Cc: rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
> Subject: Re: [rancid] Email notification with RANCID
> 
> On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 5:33 AM, Michael Lee <michael.lee at mincom.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I am new to RANCID, hopefully you guys can help. I have been trying to find
>> some way to make RANCID notify daily through mail which devices is backup
>> successful and which backup is not successful.
>> 
>> Is there currently a way to do this. I notice the capability at the moment
>> only send notification on the changes of the configuration.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Many thanks in advance,
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Br,
>> 
>> Michael
>> 
>> 
> 
> rancid will send a notification email if it has not been able to
> contact a device for 24hours, the below is from control_rancid
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> -----------------
> # If any machines have not been reached within the last $OLDTIME
> # hours, mail out a list of them.
> cd $DIR/configs
> rm -f $DIR/routers.failed
> if [ "X$OLDTIME" = "X" ] ; then
>     OLDTIME=24
> fi
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> -----------------
> 
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