[rancid] Alcatel script, not parsing the commands and/or output well (/partially)

[David Byers]

Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise (Omniswitch) is indeed not at all the same as
Alcatel-Lucent (Nokia). Furthermore, old versions of AOS behave very
differently from new versions. We've got some ugly Python hacks for
rancid that pull configs and a little more information from ALE
switches. I'm happy to share them after we've cleaned them up a bit. We
use them all the time, but a word of warning: they are not configurable,
and I won't even guarantee that they don't set your switch on fire.


David Byers

Linköping University


On 2019-01-30 23:51, heasley wrote:
> Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 06:44:03PM +0000, heasley:
>> Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 08:07:02AM +0100, Remko Lodder:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I also have “3.99.99” on the system to compare the output. The regular version on the system is 3.6 it seems.
>>> But, the noklogin works after modifying the u_prompt and p_prompt. When running rancid -d -t sros <devicename>
>>> it wants to execute commands that are not available at all on the Alcatel.
>>>
>>> The ones that I use from Burgalio’s :
>>>
>>>         {'show chassis'                 => 'ShowChassis'},
>>>         {'show system'                  => 'ShowSystem'},
>>>         {'show module'                  => 'ShowModule'},
>>>         {'show stack topology'          => 'ShowStackTopolgy'},
>>>         {'show lanpower 1'              => 'ShowLanPower'},
>>>         {'show lanpower 2'              => 'ShowLanPower'},
>>>         {'show user'                    => 'ShowUser'},
>>>         {'ls'                           => 'GenericParse'},
>>>         {'ls certified/'                => 'GenericParse'},
>>>         {'ls working/'                  => 'GenericParse'},
>>>         {'ls switch/'                   => 'GenericParse'},
>>>         {'ls network/'                  => 'GenericParse'},
>>>         {'show vlan'                    => 'ShowVLAN'},
>>>         {'show interfaces status'       => 'ShowInterfaces'},
>>>         {'show running'                 => 'ShowConf'},
>>>         {'show configuration snapshot'  => 'ShowConf’},
>>>
>>> which does not match:
>>>
>>> xecuting noklogin -t 90 -c"show system information;file type bootlog.txt;show redundancy synchronization;show chassis;show chassis environment;show chassis power-supply;show chassis power-management;show card state;show card detail;show debug;show bof;admin display-config index;admin display-config” <devicename>
>>>
>>> Do note that it seems that the SROS is on a very different architecture based then what my Omniswitches use. So it seems incompatible to start with, where the alu* scripts might not entirely work with every command on the OS6000 that I have, but most of them are accepted in older (legacy) components but also on the newer
>>> versions.
>> testing & dev was done with 7750.  I will enquire with my nokia contact
>> about the omniswitch.
> I'm told that these are totally separate from the Nokia systems I know and
> will never converge.  so, they should be handled separately, but I have
> none to poke for debugging/testing.
>
>>> Thanks
>>> Remko
>>>
>>>> On 16 Jan 2019, at 18:39, heasley <heas at shrubbery.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 12:02:14PM +0100, Remko Lodder:
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>> First of all, thank you for Rancid, it’s a great tool to monitor configuration changes and pushing back changes.
>>>>>
>>>>> Having Said that;
>>>>>
>>>>> I fetched some alcatel switches which I modified a little to work on various types . These changes are trivial
>>>>> changes from upstream so no real changes there actually.
>>>>>
>>>>> It seems that most switches work just fine, but that one particular switch is not able to keep up  with the
>>>>> requests. It seems that this specific switch misses commands (like ls and show interface status).
>>>>> If I look back in the raw output it appears to miss characters:
>>>>>
>>>>> # how interfaces status
>>>>>                  ^
>>>>> ERROR: Invalid entry: “how”
> I suspect that the login script it out of sync (ahead of) the cli.  possibly
> due to incorrectly matching a rogue prompt in some output or banner.
>
>>>>> The same goes for ls, where ’s' is the command being send. Or for exit at the end which is send as “xit”.
>>>>>
>>>>> The scripts are from: https://github.com/buraglio/alurancid (Thanks buraglio) and apart from one switch work
>>>>> fine it seems.
>>>>>
>>>>> Switching from SSH to Telnet does not make a difference.
>>>>> Does someone have an suggestion on where to look?
>>>> can you try the sros support that is in rancid 3.8 or the current alpha?
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