[rancid] Fortigate diffs when nothing actually changed

[Chard, Alex (RET-SYD)]

Hi All,
I know I have seen this discussed a few times on here but I haven't been able to find the resolution in the archives.

I am running Rancid 3 (not sure how to check exact version).
I have fortigates backed up in Rancid. They periodically drop/add commands from the config, and then revert back at the next backup.
This means I end up with config diffs like the following:



retrieving revision 1.11

diff -U 4 -r1.11 rausyd-lan-fw02s.corp.regn.net @@ -59530,8 +59530,9 @@

          set dataset "traffic.Top10.IM.Users.Volume"

          set category traffic

          set favorite no

          set graph-type bar

+ exit

          set style auto

          set dimension 3D

              config x-series

                  set caption ''
followed by:

retrieving revision 1.12

diff -U 4 -r1.12 rausyd-lan-fw02s.corp.regn.net @@ -59530,9 +59530,8 @@

          set dataset "traffic.Top10.IM.Users.Volume"

          set category traffic

          set favorite no

          set graph-type bar

- exit

          set style auto

          set dimension 3D

              config x-series

                  set caption ''

I do have the pager turned off, so that's not the issue.

And a partly related question, is there a way to have rancid download a config file by SCP rather than execute commands to retrieve it?
It seems to me this might be more successful - and also an easy way to grab config from devices that aren't supported.

Thanks,
Alex

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