Re: Cisco configuration with cfengine

2011-01-13 Thread Seva Gluschenko
Well, there's a good Perl module called Net::Appliance::Session which allows to communicate with many network equipment models (not only Cisco). Using it, you can either write a Cfengine module or a standalone script placed to some managing server (e.g. TFTP server which stores your network equipme

Re: Cisco configuration with cfengine

2011-01-13 Thread Daniel Bidwell
On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 23:20 +0100, Michael Schwartzkopff wrote: > Hi, > > using cfengine for managing a installation of cisco routers and switches is a > special challenging task because you cannon install the agent on the managed > device. Any ideas how to manage large cisco installations with

Cisco configuration with cfengine

2011-01-13 Thread Michael Schwartzkopff
Hi, using cfengine for managing a installation of cisco routers and switches is a special challenging task because you cannon install the agent on the managed device. Any ideas how to manage large cisco installations with cfengine? Thanks for any hints. -- Dr. Michael Schwartzkopff Guardinist

Re: Cfengine Help: lastseen db not updating

2011-01-13 Thread Frans Lawaetz
> This morning my lastseen report (c3.0.5p1) showed that all clients had not > checked in for a least 40 hours. The clients are running, I can run them > manually and confirm connections yet the server's lastseen reportl, after > running a new cf-report, shows no new checkins. Any ideas? > Th

Cfengine Help: Re: cf-report only Nova for 3.1.2?

2011-01-13 Thread no-reply
Forum: Cfengine Help Subject: Re: cf-report only Nova for 3.1.2? Author: matter Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,20104,20105#msg-20105 Nevermind, a sudden case of RTFM - cf-report -I is what I need to use now. ___ Help-cfengine

Cfengine Help: cf-report only Nova for 3.1.2?

2011-01-13 Thread no-reply
Forum: Cfengine Help Subject: cf-report only Nova for 3.1.2? Author: matter Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,20104,20104#msg-20104 Greetings, I was testing migrating my policy host to 3.1.2 when I noticed this: # /var/cfengine/bin/cf-report -v | tail -4 cf3 last_seen cf3 *

Cfengine Help: Re: Strange error message in cfengine 3.1.2

2011-01-13 Thread no-reply
Forum: Cfengine Help Subject: Re: Strange error message in cfengine 3.1.2 Author: neilhwatson Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,20095,20103#msg-20103 I think I've seen this previously. I don't recall the exact details but I think the problem was that the variable in question h

Re: Strange error message in cfengine 3.1.2

2011-01-13 Thread Mark Burgess
Well that's good news. My guess is perhaps some bianry characters crept into the code somewhere triggering a response from parser. On 01/13/2011 12:23 PM, Erik Mouw wrote: > On Jan 13, 2011, at 10:57, Mark Burgess wrote: >> Erik, can you try show us exactly what command results in this message. >

Re: Strange error message in cfengine 3.1.2

2011-01-13 Thread Erik Mouw
On Jan 13, 2011, at 10:57, Mark Burgess wrote: > Erik, can you try show us exactly what command results in this message. > I don't get anything like this when I run your example through Cfengine. I'd love to Mark, but it looks like I encountered a Heisenbug: once I started running 'cf-agent -v' by

Cfengine Help: Re: cf_lock.db gets bigger and bigger

2011-01-13 Thread no-reply
Forum: Cfengine Help Subject: Re: cf_lock.db gets bigger and bigger Author: Lars.O Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,19875,20100#msg-20100 Oh, I forgot :$, community version 3.1.2 on Redhat 5.3. ___ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfe

Cfengine Help: Re: cf_lock.db gets bigger and bigger

2011-01-13 Thread no-reply
Forum: Cfengine Help Subject: Re: cf_lock.db gets bigger and bigger Author: Lars.O Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,19875,20099#msg-20099 Thanks for the db_dump command, very useful :-) I have now managed to isolate promises which causes cf_lock.db to grow indefinitely. And a

Re: Strange error message in cfengine 3.1.2

2011-01-13 Thread Mark Burgess
Erik, can you try show us exactly what command results in this message. I don't get anything like this when I run your example through Cfengine. M On 01/13/2011 10:38 AM, Erik Mouw wrote: > On Jan 13, 2011, at 10:35, Eystein Måløy Stenberg wrote: > > Hi Eystein, > >> In any case this is a bug

Re: Strange error message in cfengine 3.1.2

2011-01-13 Thread Erik Mouw
On Jan 13, 2011, at 10:35, Eystein Måløy Stenberg wrote: Hi Eystein, > In any case this is a bug (it should never print non-printable chars). > Please retry with Cfengine 3.1.2 (if you are on an older version), as I > believe it has already been fixed.. This -is- with Cfengine 3.1.2, so whateve

Re: Strange error message in cfengine 3.1.2

2011-01-13 Thread Eystein Måløy Stenberg
Hey, In any case this is a bug (it should never print non-printable chars). Please retry with Cfengine 3.1.2 (if you are on an older version), as I believe it has already been fixed.. -- Regards Eystein On 01/13/2011 10:04 AM, Erik Mouw wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm writing a promise to keep a names

Strange error message in cfengine 3.1.2

2011-01-13 Thread Erik Mouw
Hi all, I'm writing a promise to keep a nameserver and a locking daemon for a CAD package running as a specific user, and on one RHEL3 64 bit machine (yes I know, no longer supported by Red Hat, but we need it for legacy designs) I get the following errors: Validation: Error reading assumed integ