NAME

       rancid - Cisco configuration filter

SYNOPSIS

       rancid [-dlV] (-f filename | 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:

       agmrancid      Cisco Anomaly Guard Module (AGM)

       arancid        Alteon WebOS switches

       arrancid       Arista Networks devices

       brancid        Bay Networks (nortel)

       cat5rancid     Cisco catalyst switches

       cssrancid      Cisco content services switches

       erancid        ADC-kentrox EZ-T3 mux

       f10rancid      Force10

       f5rancid       F5 BigIPs

       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

       mrvrancid      MRV optical switches

       mtrancid       Mikrotik routesrs

       nrancid        Netscreen firewalls

       nsrancid       Netscaler

       nxrancid       Cisco Nexus boxes

       prancid        Procket Networks

       rivrancid      Riverstone

       rrancid        Redback

       srancid        SMC switch (some Dell OEMs)

       trancid        Netopia sDSL/T1 routers

       tntrancid      Lucent TNT

       xrancid        Extreme switches

       xrrancid       Cisco IOS-XR boxes

       zrancid        Zebra routing software

       The command-line options are as follows:

       -V     Prints package name and version strings.

       -d     Display debugging information.

       -l     Display somewhat less debugging information.

       -f     rancid  should  interpret  the  next  argument  as  a  filename which contains the output it would
              normally collect from the device ( hostname) with clogin(1).

SEE ALSO

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

CAVEATS

       Cisco IOS offers a DHCP server that maintains a text database which can be stored remotely  or  on  local
       storage.   If stored locally, the file changes constantly and causes constant diffs from rancid.  If this
       file's name ('ip dhcp database') matches the regex dhcp_[^[:space:].].txt, it will be filtered.

       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)

       rancid  works  on Cisco Catalyst 1900 series switches that are running Enterprise Edition software.  This
       software provides a menu at connection time that allows a command line interface to be used  by  entering
       'K' at the prompt.

                                                  26 April 2011                                        rancid(1)