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rancid

NAME

rancid − Cisco configuration filter

SYNOPSIS

rancid [−dlV] (−f filename | hostname)

DESCRIPTION

rancid is a perl(1) script which uses the login scripts (see clogin(1)) to login to a device, execute commands to display the configuration, etc, then filters the output for formatting, security, and so on. rancid’s product is a file with the name of it’s last argument plus the suffix .new. For example, hostname.new.

There are complementary scripts for other platforms and/or manufacturers that are supported by rancid(1). Briefly, these are:

agmrancid

Cisco Anomaly Guard Module (AGM)

arancid

Alteon WebOS switches

brancid

Bay Networks (nortel)

cat5rancid

Cisco catalyst switches

cssrancid

Cisco content services switches

erancid

ADC-kentrox EZ-T3 mux

f10rancid

Force10

fnrancid

Fortinet Firewalls

francid

Foundry and HP procurve OEMs of Foundry

hrancid

HP Procurve Switches

htranicd

Hitachi Routers

jerancid

Juniper Networks E-series

jrancid

Juniper Networks

mrancid

MRTd

nrancid

Netscreen firewalls

nsrancid

Netscaler

prancid

Procket Networks

rivrancid

Riverstone

rrancid

Redback

srancid

SMC switch (some Dell OEMs)

tntrancid

Lucent TNT

xrancid

Extreme switches

zrancid

Zebra routing software

The command-line options are as follows:

−V

Prints package name and version strings.

−d

Display debugging information.

−l

Display somewhat less debugging information.

−f

rancid should interpret the next argument as a filename which contains the output it would normally collect from the device ( hostname) with clogin(1).

SEE ALSO

control_rancid(1), clogin(1), rancid.conf(5)

CAVEATS

For Catalyst switches running CatOS, type cat5, the prompt must end with ’>’. clogin(1) looks for ’>’ to determine when a login is successful. For example:

cat5k>
cat5k> enable
Password:
cat5k> (enable)

rancid works on Cisco Catalyst 1900 series switches that are running Enterprise Edition software. This software provides a menu at connection time that allows a command line interface to be used by entering ’K’ at the prompt.

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