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rancid - Cisco configuration filter
rancid [-dl] ([-f filename] |
hostname)
rancid is a perl(1)
script which uses the login scripts
(see clogin(1)
) to login to a device, execute commands to display the configuration,
etc, then filters the output for formatting, security, and so on. rancid’s
product is a file with the name of it’s last argument plus the suffix .new.
For example, hostname.new.
There are complementary scripts for other platforms
and/or manufacturers that are supported by rancid(1)
. Briefly, these are:
- arancid
- Alteon WebOS switches
- brancid
- Bay Networks (nortel)
- cat5rancid
- Cisco catalyst switches
- cssrancid
- Cisco content services switches
- drancid
- Dell switches
- erancid
- ADC-kentrox EZ-T3 mux
- f10rancid
- Force10
- fnrancid
- Fortinet
Firewalls
- francid
- Foundry and HP procurve OEMs of Foundry
- hrancid
- HP Procurve
Switches
- htranicd
- Hitachi Routers
- jerancid
- Juniper Networks E-series
- jrancid
- Juniper Networks
- mrancid
- MRTd
- prancid
- Procket Networks
- rivrancid
- Riverstone
- rrancid
- Redback
- tntrancid
- Lucent TNT
- nrancid
- Netscreen firewalls
- nsrancid
- Netscaler
- xrancid
- Extreme switches
- zrancid
- Zebra routing software
The command-line
options are as follows:
- -d
- Display debugging information.
- -l
- Display somewhat
less debugging information.
- -f
- rancid should interpret the next argument
as a filename which contains the output it would normally collect from
the device ( hostname) with clogin(1)
.
control_rancid(1)
, clogin(1)
,
rancid.conf(5)
For Catalyst switches running CatOS, type cat5, the
prompt must end with ’>’. clogin(1)
looks for ’>’ to determine when a login is
successful. For example:
cat5k>
cat5k> enable
Password:
cat5k> (enable)
rancid works on Cisco Catalyst 1900 series switches that are running Enterprise
Edition software. This software provides a menu at connection time that
allows a command line interface to be used by entering ’K’ at the prompt.
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