Advanced Registry Operations Curriculum

Using Rancid - Part II

0.	Become the RANCID user

	- Make sure you are the root user first. If not, then do:
	
	$ su -
	
	- To become the RANCID user do:

	# su -s /bin/bash rancid

1. Note the IP addresses for the routers

	10.10.10.21 for group 1 or 10.10.10.22 for group 2

2. Update /var/lib/rancid/.cloginrc

	Change the file to look like this:

	$ vi /var/lib/rancid/.cloginrc

	add user 10.10.10.* tldadmin
	add password 10.10.10.* tldadmin tldadmin

	(This tells RANCID that all hosts called "tldadmin.*" use the
	same password and user -- no need to add every router by hand!)

3. Update the router.db

    $ vi /var/lib/rancid/all/router.db

	Add our other classroom router to the file. You should end up with:

	10.10.10.21:cisco:up
	10.10.10.22:cisco:up

	(Note that "cisco" means this is Cisco equipment -- it tells Rancid
	that we are expecting to talk to a Cisco device here.  You can also
	talk to Juniper, HP, ...)

4. Run rancid again:

	$ /usr/lib/rancid/bin/rancid-run

	(Should take a few seconds)

5. Check out the logs:

	$ cd /var/lib/rancid/logs
	$ ls -l

	... View the contents of the file:

	$ more all.*

6. Look at the configs

	$ cd /var/lib/rancid/all/configs
	$ more 10.10.10.*

	- If all went well, you can see the configs of ALL routers

7. Change the configuration on the router (change the description on
    an interface, for example)

8. Run rancid again

	$ /usr/lib/rancid/bin/rancid-run

9. Play with clogin:


	$  /usr/lib/rancid/bin/clogin -c "show clock" 10.10.10.21 10.10.10.22

- What do you notice ?


10. Add the RANCID CVS repository in to CVSweb

	- Exit from the RANCID user:

	$ exit
	
	- Edit the file /etc/cvsweb/cvsweb.conf:

	# vi /etc/cvsweb/cvsweb.conf

	- Either above or below the line:

'nagios3' => ['AROC Nagios', '/home/tldadmin/cvs'],

	add a new line that reads:

'rancid'   => ['Rancid Repository', '/var/lib/rancid/CVS'],

	- Save and exit

	- Open a web browser to the link:

	http://localhost/cgi-bin/cvsweb/

	  and select between the RANCID and the AROC Nagios3 configuration files CVS
	  repositories in the CVS Root drop-down list.