What is this

This is a couple of script, dirtily adapted from Cisco's support on rancid 2.3. Rancid 2.3 and 3.7 is supported.

Installation

• Copy both scripts to /var/lib/rancid/bin
• chmod +x /var/lib/rancid/bin/mlnx*
• Add a router in router.db, using the mellanox hardware type
• For rancid 2.3:
  • edit /var/lib/rancid/bin/rancid-fe, you will find a %vendortable variable, add the entry 'mellanox' => 'mlnxrancid':

  %vendortable = (
    'cat5'      => 'cat5rancid',
    'cisco'     => 'rancid',
    'cisco-nx'      => 'nxrancid',
    'cisco-xr'          => 'xrrancid',
    'mellanox'      => 'mlnxrancid',
    'mrtd'      => 'mrancid',
    );
  

• For rancid 3.7:
  • Edit /etc/rancid/rancid.types.conf, add mellanox;script;mlnxrancid