[rancid] Rancid for other types of devices

Discussion:

Daniel Rich

2010-11-05 16:49:26 UTC

I have been a rancid user for several years, mostly on Cisco and Foundry
devices. One of our admins walked into my cube this morning and asked
about using it on other types of devices and I wanted to see if anyone
had beat me to it before I spent the next few weeks fiddling with the
code to make it do what I want... :-)

Has anyone attempted (or more importantly succeeded) in getting rancid
working with any of the following?

* HP On-Board Administrator (controller for their blade chassis,
also contains the switch configs)
* HP ILO
* Network Appliance Filers

All of the above have a CLI interface that is similar to a routers, it's
just a matter of getting the right commands into the scripts - I hope.

Thanks!

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Jethro R Binks

2010-11-05 17:12:26 UTC

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Which product do you mean exactly here? We have c7000 blade chassis,
although the server team chose the bladenetworks GbE switches rather than
the real Cisco blade switch offering, but it is managed completely
separately from the blade chassis.

I vaguely looked at the bladenetworks switches; it has two versions of the
CLI, the default AOS one, for which alogin/arancid might work (Alteon
WebOS), and the cisco-ish one you can use instead (which we do), which
isn't cisco-enough to be clogin and would probably need something new
writing.

Post by Daniel Rich
* HP ILO

What configuration does the iLO have that it is worth rancid pulling?

Jethro.

Post by Daniel Rich
* Network Appliance Filers
All of the above have a CLI interface that is similar to a routers, it's
just a matter of getting the right commands into the scripts - I hope.
Thanks!
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Daniel Rich

2010-11-08 17:11:07 UTC

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Post by Jethro R Binks

HP Onboard Administrator is the chassis administrator interface. It
allows you to manage and configure the enclosed blades, switches, SAN
hardware, etc. It has an ssh interface that allows you to access the
configuration that would be well suited for use with rancid.
http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/blades/components/onboard/index.html

I should mention, I don't deal with OA or ILO myself, I'm just going to
be the one attempting to build a rancid interface to it if I can't find
anyone else who has already tried.

Post by Jethro R Binks

Post by Daniel Rich
* HP ILO

What configuration does the iLO have that it is worth rancid pulling?

I believe the big thing for us is the user authentication config. But I
know that there are other bits that we would like to both track and be
able to update using some sort of config management system, rancid being
one possibility.

Post by Jethro R Binks

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Peter Serwe

2010-11-09 05:30:56 UTC

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Without mentioning the fact that rancid can sort of be used as centralized
auth,
I'd make a strong recommendation to use some sort of central auth with the
HP OA/ILO.

Personally, I'm forklifting my last one out fairly shortly.

Peter

Post by Daniel Rich
I have been a rancid user for several years, mostly on Cisco and Foundry
devices. One of our admins walked into my cube this morning and asked
about using it on other types of devices and I wanted to see if anyone
had beat me to it before I spent the next few weeks fiddling with the
code to make it do what I want... :-)
Has anyone attempted (or more importantly succeeded) in getting rancid
working with any of the following?
* HP On-Board Administrator (controller for their blade chassis,
also contains the switch configs)
Which product do you mean exactly here? We have c7000 blade chassis,
although the server team chose the bladenetworks GbE switches rather than
the real Cisco blade switch offering, but it is managed completely
separately from the blade chassis.
HP Onboard Administrator is the chassis administrator interface. It allows
you to manage and configure the enclosed blades, switches, SAN hardware,
etc. It has an ssh interface that allows you to access the configuration
that would be well suited for use with rancid.
http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/blades/components/onboard/index.html
I should mention, I don't deal with OA or ILO myself, I'm just going to be
the one attempting to build a rancid interface to it if I can't find anyone
else who has already tried.
* HP ILO
What configuration does the iLO have that it is worth rancid pulling?
I believe the big thing for us is the user authentication config. But I
know that there are other bits that we would like to both track and be able
to update using some sort of config management system, rancid being one
possibility.
* Network Appliance Filers
All of the above have a CLI interface that is similar to a routers, it's
just a matter of getting the right commands into the scripts - I hope.
Thanks!
--
| "Step up to red alert!" "Are you sure, sir?
| It means changing the bulb in the sign..."
| - Red Dwarf (BBC)
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