[rancid] 3com 5500 device support

[Laurent CARON]

Hi,

I've seen the recent thread of Jun. 12 (Added 3com BLS switches (2948)
and corrected script for fortigate 80, and OpenSuSE spec file) about
3com device support.

I'd like to know if supporting 3com devices in the official rancid
distribution is planned or not.

Thanks

Laurent

[Jethro R Binks]

Post by Laurent CARON
I've seen the recent thread of Jun. 12 (Added 3com BLS switches (2948)
and corrected script for fortigate 80, and OpenSuSE spec file) about
3com device support.
I'd like to know if supporting 3com devices in the official rancid
distribution is planned or not.

Officially, I do not know. But I knocked up some modules specifically for
5500s, of which we have a good number, and they work reasonably well.

I have just uploaded what you need to try it out, see:

http://sites.google.com/site/jrbinks/code/rancid/h3c

and let me know how you get on.

Jethro.

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Jethro R Binks
Computing Officer, IT Services, University Of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK

[Laurent CARON]

Post by Jethro R Binks

Post by Laurent CARON
I've seen the recent thread of Jun. 12 (Added 3com BLS switches (2948)
and corrected script for fortigate 80, and OpenSuSE spec file) about
3com device support.
I'd like to know if supporting 3com devices in the official rancid
distribution is planned or not.

Officially, I do not know. But I knocked up some modules specifically for
5500s, of which we have a good number, and they work reasonably well.
http://sites.google.com/site/jrbinks/code/rancid/h3c
and let me know how you get on.

Hi,

Tried it on both 4500 and 5500 series switches and it seems to somehow fail.

I get the following error in the logs:

Getting missed routers: round 3.
can not find channel named "exp6"
while executing
"close"
("foreach" body line 129)
invoked from within
"foreach router [lrange $argv $i end] {
set router [string tolower $router]
send_user "$router\n"

# Figure out prompt.
# Since autoena..."
(file "/usr/lib/rancid/bin/h3clogin" line 657)
routername.domain.com h3clogin error: Error: TIMEOUT reached
routername.domain.com: missed cmd(s): display domain,display ftm
topology-database,display current-configuration,display password-control
super,display cluster,display device manuinfo,display xrn-fabric,display
password-control,display fan,display poe temperature-protection,display
mirror all,display lacp sys,display fib,display poe powersupply,display
device,display version,display link-aggregation verbose,display ssh
server status,display vlan all,display link-aggregation summary,display
power,display boot-loader,display local-user
routername.domain.com: End of run not found
!


Whenever using bin/h3clogin routername.domainname.com I can get the
switch prompt fine.

Do you have a clue about what might be wrong here ?

Thanks