[rancid] End of config in Extreme Switches

[heasley]

Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 09:13:48AM +0100, Paul Thornton:
> Hi
> 
> The issue here is that I've found that EXOS/Extremeware doesn't always 
> echo that 'exit' back reliably before the connection is closed.  Again, 
> it was a long time ago, but I recall problems relying on that for 
> found_end and/or clean_run getting set.

for starters, the main loop also expects to see the exit.

> I think the most sensible option is to go with Alan's suggestion to 
> assume all is good if we get at least 5 lines of config.

thats already there, i think, in 2.3.8.  of course, it does not deal with
low memory errors like seen on ciscos.  another solution might be to add
a \n command and look for the empty prompt line; which is a separate set
of ugliness.

> I've been tied up with other things so far this week, but I want to do 
> some tests on using both the clean xrancid from 2.3.8 and then xrancid 
> patched for the 'have 5 lines so ok' test.  I hope to do this later 
> today and will report back.
> 
> Paul.
> 
> On 03/10/2013 01:52, James Andrewartha wrote:
> > On 02/10/13 18:09, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> >> To me that's a more sensible approach - you can't include checks for
> >> markers that do not exist in the output.
> >
> > The entrancid (Enterasys) I have looks like it matches on the exit
> > command sent by entlogin itself to set $found_end:
> >
> > sub ShowConfig {
> >      print STDERR "    In ShowConfig: $_" if ($debug);
> >
> >      while (<INPUT>) {
> > <snip>
> >      }
> >      if (/exit/) {
> >      $found_end = 1;
> >      $clean_run = 1;
> >      return(1);
> >      }
> >      return(0);
> > }
> >
> 
> -- 
> Paul Thornton
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