[rancid] Email notification with RANCID

[Michael Lee]

Hi all,

I am new to RANCID, hopefully you guys can help. I have been trying to find some way to make RANCID notify daily through mail which devices is backup successful and which backup is not successful.
Is there currently a way to do this. I notice the capability at the moment only send notification on the changes of the configuration.

Many thanks in advance,

Br,
Michael

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[shouldbe q931]

Post by Michael Lee
Hi all,
I am new to RANCID, hopefully you guys can help. I have been trying to find
some way to make RANCID notify daily through mail which devices is backup
successful and which backup is not successful.
Is there currently a way to do this. I notice the capability at the moment
only send notification on the changes of the configuration.
Many thanks in advance,
Br,
Michael

rancid will send a notification email if it has not been able to
contact a device for 24hours, the below is from control_rancid

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# If any machines have not been reached within the last $OLDTIME
# hours, mail out a list of them.
cd $DIR/configs
rm -f $DIR/routers.failed
if [ "X$OLDTIME" = "X" ] ; then
OLDTIME=24
fi
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[Michael Lee]

Hi,

Really appreciate your reply. Yeah, however I am trying to list out all the devices and backup status in a list. By the way, do you know anyway to send the configuration diff using html format in an EMAIL similar to what we see on VIEWVC?


BR,
Michael
-----Original Message-----
From: shouldbe q931 [mailto:***@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 2:55 AM
To: Michael Lee
Cc: rancid-***@shrubbery.net
Subject: Re: [rancid] Email notification with RANCID

Post by Michael Lee
Hi all,
I am new to RANCID, hopefully you guys can help. I have been trying to find
some way to make RANCID notify daily through mail which devices is backup
successful and which backup is not successful.
Is there currently a way to do this. I notice the capability at the moment
only send notification on the changes of the configuration.
Many thanks in advance,
Br,
Michael

rancid will send a notification email if it has not been able to
contact a device for 24hours, the below is from control_rancid

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# If any machines have not been reached within the last $OLDTIME
# hours, mail out a list of them.
cd $DIR/configs
rm -f $DIR/routers.failed
if [ "X$OLDTIME" = "X" ] ; then
OLDTIME=24
fi
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


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[Hagen, Skye]

We took a completely different tact on notification. We backup over 1600
devices nightly, and only want notification if there is a problem, and in
some cases, only when there is a major problem.

We use syslog with Splunk for a majority of our reporting. What I did was to
wrap 'rancid-run' in a shell script that will take the logs, massage them,
and send the results to syslog.

We have created a number of Splunk reports, such as a report that tells us
if there are excessive errors, or if a backup has had successive failures.

If anyone is interested, I have attached the script.

Skye.

Post by Michael Lee
Hi,
Really appreciate your reply. Yeah, however I am trying to list out all the
devices and backup status in a list. By the way, do you know anyway to send
the configuration diff using html format in an EMAIL similar to what we see on
VIEWVC?
BR,
Michael
-----Original Message-----
Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 2:55 AM
To: Michael Lee
Subject: Re: [rancid] Email notification with RANCID

Post by Michael Lee
Hi all,
I am new to RANCID, hopefully you guys can help. I have been trying to find
some way to make RANCID notify daily through mail which devices is backup
successful and which backup is not successful.
Is there currently a way to do this. I notice the capability at the moment
only send notification on the changes of the configuration.
Many thanks in advance,
Br,
Michael

rancid will send a notification email if it has not been able to
contact a device for 24hours, the below is from control_rancid
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------
# If any machines have not been reached within the last $OLDTIME
# hours, mail out a list of them.
cd $DIR/configs
rm -f $DIR/routers.failed
if [ "X$OLDTIME" = "X" ] ; then
OLDTIME=24
fi
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------
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[Krzysztof Zygmunt]

Hi,

It looks very interesting, can you tell me what do you do with those
syslog messages
on splunk side ? How do you generate any reports from such information ?

cheers
kris

Post by Hagen, Skye
We took a completely different tact on notification. We backup over 1600
devices nightly, and only want notification if there is a problem, and in
some cases, only when there is a major problem.
We use syslog with Splunk for a majority of our reporting. What I did was to
wrap 'rancid-run' in a shell script that will take the logs, massage them,
and send the results to syslog.
We have created a number of Splunk reports, such as a report that tells us
if there are excessive errors, or if a backup has had successive failures.
If anyone is interested, I have attached the script.
Skye.

Post by Michael Lee
Hi,
Really appreciate your reply. Yeah, however I am trying to list out all the
devices and backup status in a list. By the way, do you know anyway to send
the configuration diff using html format in an EMAIL similar to what we see on
VIEWVC?
BR,
Michael
-----Original Message-----
Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 2:55 AM
To: Michael Lee
Subject: Re: [rancid] Email notification with RANCID

Post by Michael Lee
Hi all,
I am new to RANCID, hopefully you guys can help. I have been trying to find
some way to make RANCID notify daily through mail which devices is backup
successful and which backup is not successful.
Is there currently a way to do this. I notice the capability at the moment
only send notification on the changes of the configuration.
Many thanks in advance,
Br,
Michael

rancid will send a notification email if it has not been able to
contact a device for 24hours, the below is from control_rancid
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------
# If any machines have not been reached within the last $OLDTIME
# hours, mail out a list of them.
cd $DIR/configs
rm -f $DIR/routers.failed
if [ "X$OLDTIME" = "X" ] ; then
     OLDTIME=24
fi
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------
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[Hagen, Skye]

The syslog events are indexed in Splunk with a specific sourcetype, in our
case 'Rancid'. We run RANCID via cron once a day. Therefore, our Splunk
reports are on a daily schedule. Here is a list of the reports that we run.

Consistent errors, where the same device has an error for the last two
weeks. Run daily, for the last 2 weeks. Query: sourcetype="Rancid"
"rancid-run" error | stats count by device | where count > 13

Excessive errors, where we have a large number of errors in a single run.
Run daily, for the last 24 hours. Query: sourcetype="Rancid" rancid Errors >
7

Did not finish, where we do not see the end of the run for our three RANCID
groups. Run daily, for the last 24 hours. Query: sourcetype="Rancid"
rancid-run ending: | stats count by date_mday | where count != 3

The reports are only emailed to our network team if the event count is
greater than zero. In other words, we only get notified if there is a
problem.

If you want to discuss this further, lets take it off-list.

Skye.

Post by Krzysztof Zygmunt
Hi,
It looks very interesting, can you tell me what do you do with those
syslog messages
on splunk side ? How do you generate any reports from such information ?
cheers
kris

Post by Hagen, Skye
We took a completely different tact on notification. We backup over 1600
devices nightly, and only want notification if there is a problem, and in
some cases, only when there is a major problem.
We use syslog with Splunk for a majority of our reporting. What I did was to
wrap 'rancid-run' in a shell script that will take the logs, massage them,
and send the results to syslog.
We have created a number of Splunk reports, such as a report that tells us
if there are excessive errors, or if a backup has had successive failures.
If anyone is interested, I have attached the script.
Skye.

Post by Michael Lee
Hi,
Really appreciate your reply. Yeah, however I am trying to list out all
the
devices and backup status in a list. By the way, do you know anyway to
send
the configuration diff using html format in an EMAIL similar to what we
see on
VIEWVC?
BR,
Michael
-----Original Message-----
Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 2:55 AM
To: Michael Lee
Subject: Re: [rancid] Email notification with RANCID

Post by Michael Lee
Hi all,
I am new to RANCID, hopefully you guys can help. I have been trying to
find
some way to make RANCID notify daily through mail which devices is backup
successful and which backup is not successful.
Is there currently a way to do this. I notice the capability at the
moment
only send notification on the changes of the configuration.
Many thanks in advance,
Br,
Michael

rancid will send a notification email if it has not been able to
contact a device for 24hours, the below is from control_rancid
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
-----------------
# If any machines have not been reached within the last $OLDTIME
# hours, mail out a list of them.
cd $DIR/configs
rm -f $DIR/routers.failed
if [ "X$OLDTIME" = "X" ] ; then
     OLDTIME=24
fi
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
-----------------
This transmission is for the intended addressee only and is confidential
information. If you have received this transmission in error, please
notify
the sender and delete the transmission. The contents of this e-mail are
the
opinion of the writer only and are not endorsed by the Mincom Group of
companies unless expressly stated otherwise.
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