Rancid currently supports Cisco routers, Juniper routers, Catalystswitches, Foundry switches, Redback NASs, ADC EZT3 muxes, MRTd (andthus likely IRRd), Alteon switches, and HP Procurve switches and ahost of others.


Note: you should config postfix mail running correctly first.

Linux Platform: CentOS 6.5 x86


1. yum -y install gcc expect cvs telnet openssh-clients mailx

vi /etc/hosts

192.168.1.11    router1


2.groupadd netadm

useradd -g netadm -c "Networking Backups" -d /usr/local/rancid rancid

3.mkdir /usr/local/rancid/tar

cd /usr/local/rancid/tar

wget ftp://ftp.shrubbery.net/pub/rancid/rancid-2.3.8.tar.gz

tar xzf rancid-2.3.8.tar.gz


4. cd rancid-2.3.8

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/rancid/

make install

cp cloginrc.sample /usr/local/rancid/.cloginrc

chmod 0640 /usr/local/rancid/.cloginrc

chown -R rancid:netadm /usr/local/rancid/

chmod 770 /usr/local/rancid/


5.vi /usr/local/rancid/etc/rancid.conf

add following items:

#
LIST_OF_GROUPS="networking"
FILTER_PWDS=NO; export FILTER_PWDS
NOCOMMSTR=NO; export NOCOMMSTR

6. for CentOS 6 using postfix

vi /etc/aliases

# Rancid email addresses

# The "networking" Rancid group will need to have groups named rancid-admin-networking and rancid-networking

rancid-admin-networking:           root

rancid-networking:                 root


postalias hash:/etc/aliases

service postfix restart


7. su - rancid

/usr/local/rancid/bin/rancid-cvs networking       #must append this networking group name

cp /usr/local/rancid/tar/rancid-2.3.8/README .


8. create an crontab for rancid user

 crontab -e

#
# Rancid user's crontab file
#

# Run config differ on Sunday
00 22 * * 0 /usr/local/rancid/bin/rancid-run

# Clean out config differ logs
50 23 * * * /usr/bin/find /usr/local/rancid/var/logs -type f -mtime +2 -exec rm {} \;

service crond restart


9. vi /usr/local/rancid/var/networking/router.db

# dns-name-or-ip-address:device-type:status

router1:cisco:up

# for rancid 3.0, using below format

# router1;cisco;up



10. vi /usr/local/rancid/.cloginrc

# Note: The first match for a hostname takes precedence.
# test linux server for router1
#add user *           {cisco}

add user router1    {cisco}
#add password *       {cisco}         {cisco}

add password router1    {cisco}    {cisco}


11. testing for router1

/usr/local/rancid/bin/clogin router1


12. testing for all devices

/usr/local/rancid/bin/rancid-run


13. checking logging

ls /usr/local/rancid/var/logs


14. checking  network devices configuration here

ls /usr/local/rancid/var/networking/configs/


it's done