[rancid] timeout problems with cisco switch/ap

[Wayne Eisenberg]

Hi,

I'm using rancid 2.3.8 to monitor some devices and everything works well except at this one location behind a firewall. Rancid runs great against the firewall itself, and I have no problem reaching the switches and APs behind the firewall. I can login to the switches fine (either directly with ssh on the rancid box or with clogin), but any command I try to issue never seems to execute on the switch when using clogin. (I have no problems if I login with ssh from the rancid box. Response to issued commands is as quick as expected.) Example:

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
[***@xxxxxx rancid]$ bin/clogin switch1
spawn ssh -c 3des -x -l administrator -p 10001 switch1

************************ Warning! Warning! Warning! ************************
This system is restricted to authorized users. Unauthorized
<snip>
************************ Warning! Warning! Warning! ************************
Password:

Switch1#sh ver

Error: TIMEOUT reached
[***@xxxxxx rancid]$ sh ver
sh: ver: No such file or directory
[***@xxxxxx rancid]$
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Changing the timeout in clogin to 90 seconds doesn't help. Any ideas?


Thanks,
Wayne





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[Wayne Eisenberg]

I just love it when I solve my problem shortly after I ask for help.

After using clogin -d, I saw it was expecting (no pun intended) that I was not in enabled mode when I was. Set autoenable to 1 in .clogin and life is good for the switches.

Thanks for listening anyway. :)


From: Rancid-discuss [mailto:rancid-discuss-***@shrubbery.net] On Behalf Of Wayne Eisenberg
Sent: Friday, September 12, 2014 5:11 AM
To: rancid-***@shrubbery.net
Subject: [rancid] timeout problems with cisco switch/ap

Hi,

I'm using rancid 2.3.8 to monitor some devices and everything works well except at this one location behind a firewall. Rancid runs great against the firewall itself, and I have no problem reaching the switches and APs behind the firewall. I can login to the switches fine (either directly with ssh on the rancid box or with clogin), but any command I try to issue never seems to execute on the switch when using clogin. (I have no problems if I login with ssh from the rancid box. Response to issued commands is as quick as expected.) Example:

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
[***@xxxxxx rancid]$ bin/clogin switch1
spawn ssh -c 3des -x -l administrator -p 10001 switch1

************************ Warning! Warning! Warning! ************************
This system is restricted to authorized users. Unauthorized
<snip>
************************ Warning! Warning! Warning! ************************
Password:

Switch1#sh ver

Error: TIMEOUT reached
[***@xxxxxx rancid]$ sh ver
sh: ver: No such file or directory
[***@xxxxxx rancid]$
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Changing the timeout in clogin to 90 seconds doesn't help. Any ideas?


Thanks,
Wayne





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