[rancid] Aruba instant OS -- dealing with lack of "end" in show configuration

heasley heas at shrubbery.net
Mon Oct 16 18:17:54 UTC 2023


Mon, Oct 16, 2023 at 05:31:40PM +0000, Elliot Wilen:
> HI, all,
> 
> I've been working on a .pm file for our Aruba Instant AP setup (which I'm defining as arubaos in the types file), using foundry.pm as a starting point, but whenever I run rancid -d -t arubaos <device>, I get "End of run not found", "clean_run is false", and "found_end is false. Eventually after messing with the .raw file I realized the problem was that "show configuration" doesn't put "end" at the end. I realize I could hack this by changing the .pm to always set $found_end to 1, but I wonder if there's a better way.
> 
> I'll note that for whatever reason, show configuration does end with 6 blank lines, so I might be able to use that. Or, a bit more kludgy, I could look for the last line that actually does print-only problem is, it is something that could theoretically change, although we would never change it in practice.

Those options seem like things that could easily break w/ new kernels.

The reason for this check is to ensure that device actually produces a
config.  Some devices produce their human-readable config from non-homan
readable sources.  when they have issues such as memory starvation that
prevent that from being produced, they will sometimes silently.

So, find a method to determine that it has produced the full config, then
set found_end if that check passes.  Some just check that no errors were
returned and greater than 5 lines of config were received.



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