[rancid] Email Alerts - Including Username That Did Change ? Possible ?

[Wilkinson, Alex]

Hi all,

Is it possible to have included in the RANCID email alerts the user-name that did the actual change ?

-Alex


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[Alan McKinnon]

Post by Wilkinson, Alex
Hi all,
Is it possible to have included in the RANCID email alerts the user-name that did the actual change ?

I doubt it. That information is not usually stored in the device's
config. Rancid is limited to using information it can acquire from a
telnet/ssh login session.

The user who made a change can be gotten from tacacs accounting logs or
possibly from syslog.

[heasley]

Post by Alan McKinnon

Post by Wilkinson, Alex
Hi all,
Is it possible to have included in the RANCID email alerts the user-name that did the actual change ?

I doubt it. That information is not usually stored in the device's
config. Rancid is limited to using information it can acquire from a
telnet/ssh login session.
The user who made a change can be gotten from tacacs accounting logs or
possibly from syslog.

this the best way. there is a way trigger rancid run from syslogs; see
the FAQ.