[c-nsp] ASR9k Too Frequent Update on Rancid

[brad dreisbach]

On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 04:23:01PM +0100, Nick Hilliard wrote:
> On 22/05/2013 15:45, Jared Mauch wrote:
> > Cisco doesn't do any testing with RANCID and summarily rejects any
> > reports related to this problem, requiring you to either report it to
> > the RANCID maintainers to pray that Cisco will accept it as a
> > bug/problem.
> 
> This is very annoying.  There is an outstanding buglet on 4.2.3/asr9001
> with the "admin show env all" command:
> 
> > RP/0/RSP0/CPU0:Router#admin show env all
> [...]
> > Altitude Information
> > ---------------------------------------------
> > 
> > Altitude: RP/0/RSP0/CPU0:Router#

didnt a smu for this just post?

Hitless SMU, 4.2.3 SMU for Ironman envmon altitude issues, Recommended SMU
Release:	4.2.3
Release Date:	16/May/2013
File Name:	asr9k-p-4.2.3.CSCug31142.tar
Size:	2.68 MB (2805760 bytes)
MD5 Checksum:	6a3d8c461573e1ade17ac016f376fcdf


> 
> Even a single QA run through rancid would throw this up as an error because
> rancid fails to recognise the command prompt.  As it stands, there is an
> entire stable branch of XR out there which causes me to have to comment out
> bits of code in my config mgmt system because of a silly cosmetic buglet.
> Annoying.
> 
> This is fixed on 4.3.0, so no point in filing a PR.
> 
> I don't it's reasonable for Cisco to formally support rancid, but on the
> other hand it's probably of some value for them to ensure that running it
> through rancid doesn't cause gratuitous breakage because of an IOX or IOS
> problem.
> 
> Incidentally, https://github.com/ytti/oxidized doesn't have this problem
> with recognising command prompts because it uses ssh channels instead of
> screen scraping.  Then again, ssh channels don't work on vanilla IOS, sigh.
> 
> Nick
> 
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