[rancid] Increasing Timeout For RANCID
Kemp, Larry
I have some Cisco 2950’s that I need RANCID to reach via SSH. Each time rancid-run executes (either manually by me or via the cron) I see in the log that there is a clogin error for these devices. I am able to manually login by entering: “ssh ran...@172.20.30.1” as user rancid. I am able to login to these devices and then enter my enable password and run privledged commands, however to reach a password prompt takes a good 7 seconds because of how me have to route to these devices. The devices are also small and contain little memory.
I read here: http://www.shrubbery.net/rancid/man/clogin.1.html about the -t option to increase the time that Rancid waits before erroring out waiting for a login prompt. I also looked in the /usr/local/rancid/bin/clogin file to see if there was a place for me to increase this timeout limit. I am not sure if this is where I need to edit. Can anyone that has done this before point me in the right direction to increase the login timeout.
Brian Lam
I have some Cisco 2950’s that I need RANCID to reach via SSH. Each time rancid-run executes (either manually by me or via the cron) I see in the log that there is a clogin error for these devices. I am able to manually login by entering: “ssh ran...@172.20.30.1” as user rancid. I am able to login to these devices and then enter my enable password and run privledged commands, however to reach a password prompt takes a good 7 seconds because of how me have to route to these devices. The devices are also small and contain little memory.
I read here: http://www.shrubbery.net/rancid/man/clogin.1.html about the -t option to increase the time that Rancid waits before erroring out waiting for a login prompt. I also looked in the /usr/local/rancid/bin/clogin file to see if there was a place for me to increase this timeout limit. I am not sure if this is where I need to edit. Can anyone that has done this before point me in the right direction to increase the login timeout.
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Kemp, Larry
I appreciate your help very much. I found something that sounds familiar here in the archives: http://www.shrubbery.net/pipermail/rancid-discuss/2007-October/002540.html
I am in a bit over my head if I have to “pass a parameter” as you say, or as this link above discusses “modify clogin”. Not sure exactly how I would do either; could you please be more specific in what I need to do. Thanks again.
LK
Jose Madrid
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Kemp, Larry
Jose – Thanks to you and all. My company took over a smaller company and the admin duties for some smaller older Cisco devices. I increased the timeout from a value of 45 to 100 and it still did not work via ssh. I zeroized my keys and generated new ones on the Cisco gear, I also checked that “transport input ssh” was there in my vty lines; still no dice. Rancid is backing up these devices fine via telnet but errors out when switched to ssh. I think it is most likely a software revision issue on these smaller older Cisco devices. Thanks again!
LK
Christopher DeRemer
Larry,
I’m running Rancid against 2950’s with SSH no problem. Can you send over parts of your config for me to cross check. I would paste mine but the switch I’m thinking about is off right now because it’s getting installed tomorrow J
Cheers,
Christopher DeRemer, CCENT
Network Administrator
Phoebe Services
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