I have probably made something wrong ! Finally create a directory for us to ‘unzip’ rancid into.Move into the directory, we just created then download RANCID, unzip it, then install it.Copy over the ‘clogin’ file, (more on this later). There are couple of good posts out there on setting up Rancid (Really Awesome New Cisco Config Differ). Instagram post 2322486343635978085_1509477343.
I figured out the issue.
I’ve got RANCID up and running but it doesn’t seem to actually be polling the devices and getting their configs. Below is my example of the cron job. Then I configured a router in GNS3 and interlinked them. Thank you for this guide, it is really helpful.I followed your two guides but I have a problem when I run RANCID.
I’m not an expert too, so I will try to use anything else ^^Thank you again for your answers and your tutorial ! Any views or opinions expressed here are strictly my own. Rancid supports multiple hardware from Cisco, HP, Dell, Juniper and more. After following all the steps I had problems accessing the repository via browser.I just wanted to post and add that I followed the whole config and noticed that there was something missing from this part[root@localhost ~]# nano /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.confThanks for an awesome article, this definitely helped a complete Linux noob get RANCID up and running!Looks like the bracketed text is not showing up in the comments so I’ve removed them for clarity:[root@localhost ~]# nano /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.confPaste the following (at the bottom, remember to add the original brackets) 1.1, with nothing in, and I don’t have a new one (like 1.2 …) when I run it again.add user xx.xx.xx.xx Test (it works when i connect with this user by ssh)I’m sorry, I don’t speak english very well, I hope you will understand !If it all works you should be connected to your equipment, if not it should give you an error and from there you could troubleshoot more./usr/local/rancid/var/logs/ is empty …. This file has all the devices you want rancid to keep track of.
That line corresponds to the start of the custom config (“” and onward). Above I’ve got Firewalls and Switches, you might want to create a group for each customer you are backing up, or each site.
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But when I go to viewvc, I just have rev. There are couple of good posts out there on setting up Rancid (Really Awesome New Cisco Config Differ). And naturally, because I didn't have a ton of time to devote to this, stuff broke. It does this using a system called CVS (Concurrent Version System, hence the original name. It’s maybe a problem with the switch?I checked my log file, obviously it’s a password problem. Any ideas?Hey! Â Configure cloginrc.
This file is in each “group” or folder that rancid stores. When the commands completes you should be able to browse via the webpage, see the devices you added with their configurations, and get an email if you’ve followed by earlier post.For reference rancid keeps a log each time it runs and each different of group or device.
I did every possible config/changes but could not get it to work.Finally had to downgrade rancid to 2.3.8 and then i was able for rancid to pull the config of cisco-sb devices.Thanks for the guide! )Then I had to do some more searching to get it to back up my Cisco ASA firewalls and get the whole thing automated, which Ill cover in Part Two.We only need a simple web server, so set the firewall accordingly (I’m opening http (TCP 80) and https (TCP 443) but we will only configure http in this example);We have already installed Apache (web server), so we need to start it up, then set it to ‘auto-start’ with the server. Because when I use /usr/local/rancid/bin/clogin I’m connected but when i use ssh I have this error :/usr/local/rancid/bin/clogin -u rancid -p password ( the same) xx.xx.xx.xxIt works ! The first thing to do is to install Postfix with: #apt-get install postfix The CentOS (having Rancid+ViewVC) can ping the Router but can’t take configuration back up.You need to look in the Rancid Log, that will point you in the right direction.Thanks for the post. This will cause Rancid to skip it.#Of course you can also comments throughout this file or alongside devices for notes.Switch-HQ-Edge14.example.com;cisco;up; LOCATION: Server Rack ASwitch-HQ-Edge07.example.com;cisco;up; LOCATION: Room 101Switch-HQ-Edge21.example.com;cisco;down; LOCATION: Building A (Under Construction)Thanks for the response, I see what I did in the router.db file.
Out of the box, MariaDB is a little insecure, so there’s a process of hardening it called ‘mysql_secure_installation’.Now that MariaDB is installed, we need to create a user in SQL that ViewVC will use, to do that we need to log into SQL using the root password you just setup.Now that is set up we can get ViewVC to create its database.Then, (the same as you did earlier,) create another user in MariaDB, that will be a ‘read-only’ user.Edit the ViewVC configuration so that it uses all the parameters you have setup;Scroll down to the [csvdb] section, then uncomment and change the values shown (above,) so that look like.Reboot the server, and if you browse to http://{ip-or-hostname}/viewvc you should see something like this;Have you looked at rConfig? It’s a nice FOSS alternativerconfig is the worst piece of code i’ve ever seen with tones of security issues. ro-not:cisco:up sw-not:hp:down.
When I check the ViewVC page the devices are not showing up individually but it does show the router.db fileI can ssh to each device with the username I’ve made for RANCID from the server fine.#Location of File /usr/local/rancid/var/Routers/router.db#Type the Router name or IP followed by the type of device.