[rancid] F5 'bigip' SNMP password hash changes every run

[Gauthier, Chris]

Hello,

We are using rancid 3.7 here and it successfully is backing up our F5’s. However, since I added SNMPv3 onto a new pair of F5’s, the password hash changes every time rancid runs. I don’t mind this, since the purpose is to maintain a backup that I can straight-out deploy to the device, except that I don’t want the email telling me that password changed every time (which is hourly for us).

Is there a way to filter out this from the email but not from what is actually committed into the repo?

Thanks,
Chris

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Post by Gauthier, Chris
Hello,
We are using rancid 3.7 here and it successfully is backing up our F5’s. However, since I added SNMPv3 onto a new pair of F5’s, the password hash changes every time rancid runs. I don’t mind this, since the purpose is to maintain a backup that I can straight-out deploy to the device, except that I don’t want the email telling me that password changed every time (which is hourly for us).
Is there a way to filter out this from the email but not from what is actually committed into the repo?

well, some options:
- alter rancid/share/rtrfilter to instead filter by line regex;
also see rancid.conf(5):DIFFSCRIPT
- have two collections; one which filters passwords/etc, another which
does not, but which also has no diff-mail recipients. also see
rancid.conf(5):FILES section