[rancid] rancid not working with partitions v11.x tmsh F5 LTM

John Kougoulos john.kougoulos at gmail.com
Wed Feb 4 10:56:43 UTC 2015


Hi,

I had a similar problem with the width of the terminal, so when the device
was out of sync, the prompt was becoming longer and some of the commands
failed to be parsed.

I had to change in f5rancid the line:
$ENV{'TERM'} = "vt100";

to:
$ENV{'TERM'} = "vt100-w";

Regards,
John

On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 8:33 AM, Shaun Krok <Shaun.Krok at 888holdings.com>
wrote:

> Hi there
>
> I was hoping someone had come across this issue.
>
> We are using Rancid to collect diffs from our  BIG-IP clusters (as per
> bash script below)
> It works really well but are now facing an issue for reason unknown that
> when the cluster is not synced the rancid fails and reports fetcher issues.
> If I run the bash script below manually on each device it works without
> issue.
> As soon the cluster is synced it works fine ..
>
> It appears that TMSH is not allowing the script to work but it works fine
> if I run it manually on the BIG-IP
>
> What could be the problem ?
>
> Thank you
>
> Shaun
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rancid-discuss [mailto:rancid-discuss-bounces at shrubbery.net] On
> Behalf Of Shaun Krok
> Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 8:13 AM
> To: Mick O'Rourke
> Cc: rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
> Subject: Re: [rancid] rancid not working with partitions v11.x tmsh F5 LTM
>
> Thank your for the reply ---
>
> i have created a bash script on the F5 and it works creating a
> test.file with all the config
> the file is in /root/f5part
>
> #!/bin/bash
> tmsh -q -c 'cd / ;list recursive'
>
> how do i call from f5rancid or do i have this all wrong ?
>
>
> {'tmsh -q list' => 'WriteTermTMSH'},
> #{'tmsh -q -c /"cd /;list recursive"/' => 'WriteTermTMSH'},
>
>
>
> On 2014-10-13 06:13, Mick O'Rourke wrote:
> > We found easiestquickest way to modify rancid-f5 - post 11.x version
> > checkdetect, call a bash script under /root/bin which runs "tmsh -q
> > -c
> > cd / ;list recursive" working around the rancid limitationerrors that
> > resulted when  cd / ;list recursive was added to rancid-f5 itself.
> >
> > On 12 October 2014 15:27, Shaun Krok <krok at krok.za.net [4]> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> I am busy to integrate Rancid into our network and have an issue
> >> with partitions on BIG IP LTM v11.x
> >> All  works fine but Rancid does not backup all partitions …
> >> I am using the script from GIT with TMSH commands
> >>
> >> This command work from bash : tmsh -q -c "cd /; list recursive" but
> >> does not from the script ..
> >>
> >> This is a snip from the forum where the issue was identified but is
> >> anyone aware if there is a fix :
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >>
> >> Shaun
> >>
> >> here is a working tmsh version in the rancid git repo.
> >>
> >> The only thing that doesnt work when adjusting the script to list
> >> all
> >> partition co config is a tmsh -q -c "cd /; list recursive" - it
> >> errors out
> >> due to extra double quotes required by the -c option.
> >> On Dec 6, 2012 8:57 PM, "Darius Seroka" <dariusjs at gmail.com [1]>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> Shaun Krok
> >> Network Team
> >>
> >> --
> >> Shaun Krok
> >> Tel: 050 2424 381
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