[rancid] New to rancid

[Don White]

I just started with a company and they use rancid for their cisco configs.
I am trying to clean up some of the alerting that we are getting. It
appears that we are running config checks every hour. However I keep
getting the same alerts each hour. For example:

- -- configs/xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (revision 16685)
@@ -307,7 +307,6 @@
preempt
priority 105
ip xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
- no shutdown

How can I get rancid not to alert on this change if it was alerted the last
hour? Getting this same alert each hour, we will end up ignoring the
alerts. (I know this for a fact, as one switch could not be accessed for
over a year per rancid, and nobody fixed it)

Thanks,
Don

[Derek Page]

Rancid should only alert if there is a diff in the previous config.
Rancid also gives you the a few lines above and below the diff.

One of these lines must be different for each run.
@@ -307,7 +307,6 @@?

You could do this. Post is old, not sure if there is a better way.
http://www.shrubbery.net/pipermail/rancid-discuss/2006-June/001542.html

Post by Don White
I just started with a company and they use rancid for their cisco configs.
I am trying to clean up some of the alerting that we are getting. It
appears that we are running config checks every hour. However I keep
- -- configs/xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (revision 16685)
@@ -307,7 +307,6 @@
preempt
priority 105
ip xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
- no shutdown
How can I get rancid not to alert on this change if it was alerted the
last hour? Getting this same alert each hour, we will end up ignoring the
alerts. (I know this for a fact, as one switch could not be accessed for
over a year per rancid, and nobody fixed it)
Thanks,
Don
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[heasley]

Post by Derek Page
Rancid should only alert if there is a diff in the previous config.
Rancid also gives you the a few lines above and below the diff.
One of these lines must be different for each run.
@@ -307,7 +307,6 @@?
You could do this. Post is old, not sure if there is a better way.
http://www.shrubbery.net/pipermail/rancid-discuss/2006-June/001542.html

its more likely that you have a CVS problem. Please see the FAQ for a
section on just this topic.