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NAME

       router.db - rancid group configuration file

DESCRIPTION

       router.db  contains  information  for  devices  which  are  members  of  a  rancid  group.
       control_rancid(1) reads this file to compile a list of devices which it should collect.

SYNTAX

       One device is listed per-line, where the syntax is:

                 <device_name>;<device_type>;<state>[;comments]

       For example:
                 scooby.shrubbery.net;cisco;up

       The fields are as follows:

       <device_name>
              The name of the device, which must resolve via gethostbyname, used as the  argument
              to  telnet(1),  rsh(1),  or  ssh(1),  to  connect to the device.  Once converted to
              lower-case, this also becomes the name of the file used to store the  configuration
              under $BASEDIR/<group>/configs.

              Experience  has  shown  that  using the device's FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name)
              works best, as in the example above.

       <device_type>
              The type of device from the set:

               agm    A Cisco Anomaly Guard Module (aka Riverhead).  Suspect that at  some  point
                      the UI will become more cisco-like and it can be merged with the IOS rancid
                      module.

               alteon An Alteon WebOS switches.

               arcos  An Arrcus router.

               arista An Arista Networks device.

               baynet A Bay Networks router.

               bigip  A F5 device running BIG-IP >= v11.

               cat5   A Cisco catalyst series 5000 and 4000 switches (i.e.: running the  catalyst
                      OS, not IOS).

               ciena-ws
                      A Ciena Waveserver.

               cisco  A  Cisco  router, PIX, or switch such as the 3500XL or 6000 running IOS (or
                      IOS-like) OS, but not IOS-XR, NX-OS or Cisco small business devices.

               cisco-sb
                      A Cisco small business devices.

               cisco-nx
                      A Cisco Nexus switch/router.

               cisco-xr
                      A Cisco device running IOS-XR.

               cisco-wlc4
                      A Cisco Wireless Controller versions up to 4.

               cisco-wlc5
                      A Cisco Wireless Controller versions 5 and above.

               css    A Cisco content services switch.

               enterasys
                      An enterasys NAS.  This is currently an alias  for  the  riverstone  device
                      type.

               erx    A Juniper E-series edge router.

               fss2   A Fujitsu FSS2/1finity device.

               dell   A  Dell  switch.   Known working models are DES-3010F, DES-3052P, DES-3526,
                      and DES-3550.  Note that Dell OEMs some equipment and  has  purchased  some
                      companies,  so  a Dell product may not work with the dell rancid module but
                      may work with smc or force10.

               extreme
                      An Extreme switch.

               ezt3   An ADC-Kentrox EZ-T3 mux.

               f5     A F5 BigIP switch.

               force10
                      A Force10 router.

               fortigate
                      A Fortinet firewall.

               fortigate-full
                      A Fortinet firewall with all defaults shown.

               foundry
                      A Foundry router, switch, or  router-switch.   This  includes  HP  Procurve
                      switches that are OEMs of Foundry products, such as the HP9304M.

               hitachi
                      A Hitachi router.

               hp     A  HP Procurve switch such as the 2524, 4108 or J9086A (aka. 2610) procurve
                      switches, J9091A, and J8698A.  Also see the foundry type.

               juniper
                      A Juniper router.

               mrtd   A host running the (Merit) MRTd daemon.

               mrv    A MRV optical device; including NC316,  OptiSwitch  904,  OptiSwitch  906G,
                      OptiSwitch 912C, OptiSwitch 940.

               netscaler
                      A Netscaler load balancer.

               netscreen
                      A Netscreen firewall.

               paloalto
                      A Palo Alto Networks device.

               redback
                      A Redback router, NAS, etc.

               riverstone
                      A Riverstone NAS or Cabletron (starting with version ~9.0.3) router.

               routeros
                      A Mikrotik RouterOS router.

               smc    A  SMC  switch,  which  also  account  for  some Dell OEMs.  Including Dell
                      PowerConnect 35xx (3524, 3524P, 3548, 3548P) and 7048.

               sros   A Nokia (Alcatel-Lucent) router, such as the 7750 SR.

               xirrus A Xirrus array.

               zebra  Zebra routing software.

       <state>
              The state is either "up", or some other  arbitrary  value,  e.g.  "down".   If  the
              device  is not marked "up" the device's configuration will not be collected.  It is
              highly recommended that comments are made for any router not listed as up, so as to
              indicate the reason a router is not to be polled, e.g.:

              dial1.paris;cisco;up;
              core1.paris;cisco;down;in testing until 5/5/2001.
              core2.paris;cisco;ticketed;Ticket 6054234, 5/3/2001
              border1.paris;juniper;up;

              The  script  "downreport"  in  util/  can be used to produce a report of routers in
              router.db that are not marked "up".

       [comments]
              Freeform string to describe the current state of the router.

       A ``#'' at the beginning of a line is a comment; the entire line is ignored.

       If a device is deleted from the router.db file, then rancid will clean up by removing  the
       device's  config  file from $BASEDIR/<group>/configs.  The device will be removed from the
       revision control system.  It is possible, in most cases, to resurrect or check-out  copies
       of deleted device configurations.

FILES

       $BASEDIR/<group>/router.db
              Configuration  file described here, where <group> is a device group name defined in
              the variable LIST_OF_GROUPS within $BASEDIR/etc/rancid.conf.

SEE ALSO

       control_rancid(1), rancid(1), rancid.conf(5)

HISTORY

       In RANCID releases prior to 3.0, router.db used colons (:) as its field  separator.   This
       was changed to allow IPv6 addresses to be used in router.db.

                                            5 May 2020                               router.db(5)