man rancid (Commandes) - Cisco configuration filter
NAME
rancid - Cisco configuration filter
SYNOPSIS
rancid [-dl] ([c -f c filename] c | hostname)
DESCRIPTION
rancid is a perl(1) script which uses the login scripts (see clogin(1)) to login to a device, execute commands to display the configuration, etc, then filters the output for formatting, security, and so on. rancid's product is a file with the name of it's last argument plus the suffix .new. For example, hostname.new.
There are complementary scripts for other platforms and/or manufacturers that are supported by rancid(1). Briefly, these are:
- arancid
- Alteon WebOS switches
- brancid
- Bay Networks (nortel)
- cat5rancid
- Cisco catalyst switches
- cssrancid
- Cisco content services switches
- erancid
- ADC-kentrox EZ-T3 mux
- f10rancid
- Force10
- fnrancid
- Fortinet Firewalls
- francid
- Foundry and HP procurve OEMs of Foundry
- hrancid
- HP Procurve Switches
- htranicd
- Hitachi Routers
- jerancid
- Juniper Networks E-series
- jrancid
- Juniper Networks
- mrancid
- MRTd
- prancid
- Procket Networks
- rivrancid
- Riverstone
- rrancid
- Redback
- tntrancid
- Lucent TNT
- nrancid
- Netscreen firewalls
- nsrancid
- Netscaler
- xrancid
- Extreme switches
- zrancid
- Zebra routing software
The command-line options are as follows:
SEE ALSO
control_rancid(1), clogin(1), rancid.conf(5)
CAVEATS
For Catalyst switches running CatOS, type cat5, the prompt must end with '>'. clogin(1) looks for '>' to determine when a login is successful. For example:
cat5k> cat5k> enable Password: cat5k> (enable)