Kevin Bonner
2013-03-07 23:36:37 UTC
Hi Terry,
I've been using the rancid-apc tarball from rancid FTP contrib to monitor over
90 APC devices successfully for about a month and just wanted to give a
success report for this module. The only thing I needed to change was to use
passive ftp, but that was easy to get around. If you'd like the diff, just to
throw into apcrancid and disabled in the command table by default, just let me
know.
-Kevin
I've been using the rancid-apc tarball from rancid FTP contrib to monitor over
90 APC devices successfully for about a month and just wanted to give a
success report for this module. The only thing I needed to change was to use
passive ftp, but that was easy to get around. If you'd like the diff, just to
throw into apcrancid and disabled in the command table by default, just let me
know.
-Kevin
7+ years ago, I released a first cut of a RANCID module for pulling
configs from APC network management cards. As part of migrating my
monitoring systems from RANCID 2.3.1 (heavily modified) to 2.3.8, I've
o Based on 2.3.8 clogin / rancid code base - easier to see what I
changed if you want to audit the code
o Now reports the exact APC model number in the "Chassis Type" com-
ment line
o Supports 2nd-generation APC management cards such as the AP9630/
AP9631
o Supports a wider variety of FTP clients (different prompts)
o Better handling of configuration errors (such as specifying a non-
standard port number)
o Better handling of errors from the FTP client - errors are now de-
tected and reported rather than relying on the timeout mechanism
o RANCID-CONTENT-TYPE header changed to "apc" from "apc-netmgmt"
o Greatly expanded the amount of info in the 0-README file
http://www.tmk.com/transient/rancid-apc.tar.gz
http://www.tmk.com/transient/rancid-apc-old.tar.gz
Terry Kennedy http://www.tmk.com
terry at tmk.com New York, NY USA
configs from APC network management cards. As part of migrating my
monitoring systems from RANCID 2.3.1 (heavily modified) to 2.3.8, I've
o Based on 2.3.8 clogin / rancid code base - easier to see what I
changed if you want to audit the code
o Now reports the exact APC model number in the "Chassis Type" com-
ment line
o Supports 2nd-generation APC management cards such as the AP9630/
AP9631
o Supports a wider variety of FTP clients (different prompts)
o Better handling of configuration errors (such as specifying a non-
standard port number)
o Better handling of errors from the FTP client - errors are now de-
tected and reported rather than relying on the timeout mechanism
o RANCID-CONTENT-TYPE header changed to "apc" from "apc-netmgmt"
o Greatly expanded the amount of info in the 0-README file
http://www.tmk.com/transient/rancid-apc.tar.gz
http://www.tmk.com/transient/rancid-apc-old.tar.gz
Terry Kennedy http://www.tmk.com
terry at tmk.com New York, NY USA