[rancid] Mikrotik Router Backups

[Eric Merkel (Mail Lists)]

I've patched rancid 2.3.2 to handle mikrotik router backups per the following thread http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/rancid/users/3826

 

The new program mtlogin seems to work ok. However when I run /usr/local/rancid/bin/mtlogin -c" system package print detail;system routerboard print;system license print;export" 10.11.9.1 it pauses after login waiting for the command prompt and spits out some special characters  ^[[?6c^[[36;3R. Once it detects the login prompt it runs the previous commands showing the configs etc as it should then at the very end says "interrupted" and quits.

 

When the rancid-run process runs I get the following errors.

 

Trying to get all of the configs.
10.11.9.1: missed cmd(s): system routerboard print
=====================================
Getting missed routers: round 1.
10.11.9.1: missed cmd(s): system routerboard print
=====================================
Getting missed routers: round 2.
10.11.9.1: missed cmd(s): system routerboard print
=====================================
Getting missed routers: round 3.
10.11.9.1: missed cmd(s): system routerboard print
=====================================
Getting missed routers: round 4.
10.11.9.1: missed cmd(s): system routerboard print

If you are not familiar with Mikrotik, it has a command line interface although some of the text is color coded. I am wondering if these special characted codes could be causing the issue. If not where do I start looking? Thanks!

 

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Eric Merkel
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[Chris Boot]

Eric,

You need to make sure '+ct' is on the end of your username. This
disables colour (+c) and autodetection (+t). See http://www.mikrotik.com/download/CHANGELOG_3
for more details, under "What's new in 3.0rc14".

HTH,
Chris

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[Eric Merkel (Mail Lists)]

Chris,

I've finally gotten back to looking at this and the +ct seems to have helped
expect to properly parse the login info. However, I am still having the
issue of rancid geting the error "missed cmd(s): system routerboard print",
etc when rancid runs from cron. However if I run rancid-run from the command
line it seems to work fine. Any clue what might cause that? Am I missing an
environment variable or something?

I appreciate all your help this far!

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Eric Merkel
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