[rancid] Catalyst 2960

[Steve Ousley]

Hi



We have 2 Catalyst 2960 switches that rancid is unable to get the configs
from.



I have tried to clogin to the catalyst switches, and it logs in ok, however,
I cannot type anything on the command line to get anything from the switch,
the connection simply times out after a given period.



I know the rancid user works ok as I can telnet to the switch from the
rancid machine, and view output as normal, but whenever I do this from
within rancid or clogin, it fails.



The config that I have is:



x.x.x.x:cisco:up in the router.db file.



Has anyone seen anything like this in the past and corrected it?



Steve Ousley - SO620-RIPE

Nuco Technologies Ltd

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[Martin, Seth]

Is the user you log in with privileged or does it require enable? Have
you set the appropriate autoenable in the cloginrc file?



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Subject: [rancid] Catalyst 2960



Hi



We have 2 Catalyst 2960 switches that rancid is unable to get the
configs from.



I have tried to clogin to the catalyst switches, and it logs in ok,
however, I cannot type anything on the command line to get anything from
the switch, the connection simply times out after a given period.



I know the rancid user works ok as I can telnet to the switch from the
rancid machine, and view output as normal, but whenever I do this from
within rancid or clogin, it fails.



The config that I have is:



x.x.x.x:cisco:up in the router.db file.



Has anyone seen anything like this in the past and corrected it?



Steve Ousley - SO620-RIPE

Nuco Technologies Ltd

***@host-it.co.uk <mailto:***@host-it.co.uk>

www.nucotechnologies.com <http://www.nucotechnologies.com/>

Tel. [phone]



Nuco Technologies Ltd is a company registered in England and Wales
with company number 04470751

[alex]

Post by Steve Ousley
I have tried to clogin to the catalyst switches, and it logs in ok,
however, I cannot type anything on the command line to get anything from
the switch, the connection simply times out after a given period.

Your autoenable settings are wrong.

Post by Steve Ousley
Has anyone seen anything like this in the past and corrected it?

Yes. Whenever I've seen this [with routers and ASAs] it's been that the
autoenable setting in .cloginrc is wrong. RANCID is waiting for the '>'
prompt, but because the credentials you've told it to use are auto-enabled,
it never sees a '>' [only a '#'] so it times out.]

alexd

[Steve Ousley]

Hi Alex

Thanks for this explanation. Someone else already posted me the solution,
but this is useful to see exactly WHY that setting changed the behaviour :)

For the record, the setting was:

Add autoenable hostname 1

Many thanks for the swift responses and resolution.

Steve Ousley - SO620-RIPE
Nuco Technologies Ltd
***@host-it.co.uk
www.nucotechnologies.com
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Nuco Technologies Ltd is a company registered in England and Wales
with company number 04470751


-----Original Message-----
From: rancid-discuss-***@shrubbery.net
[mailto:rancid-discuss-***@shrubbery.net] On Behalf Of alex
Sent: 13 November 2008 14:31
To: rancid-***@shrubbery.net
Subject: [rancid] Re: Catalyst 2960

Post by Steve Ousley
I have tried to clogin to the catalyst switches, and it logs in ok,
however, I cannot type anything on the command line to get anything from
the switch, the connection simply times out after a given period.

Your autoenable settings are wrong.

Post by Steve Ousley
Has anyone seen anything like this in the past and corrected it?

Yes. Whenever I've seen this [with routers and ASAs] it's been that the
autoenable setting in .cloginrc is wrong. RANCID is waiting for the '>'
prompt, but because the credentials you've told it to use are auto-enabled,
it never sees a '>' [only a '#'] so it times out.]

alexd