/etc/rancid/rancid.conf

In this article you can find description of parameters in rancid.conf. By changing parameters in this file you can impact the way RANCID will behave, collect and process collected information. You can also define type of version control repository and email notifications as well as many other option.

Info

Information in this article are from rancid.conf(5) man pages included with RANCID.

RCSSYS - Revision Control System

FILTER_PWDS - Password Filtering

ACLSORT - Sorting ACLs

NOCOMMSTR - SNMP Community String

LIST_OF_GROUPS - Groups of devices

BASEDIR - Main folder for RANCID files

CVSROOT - Location of version repositories

LOCKTIME - Time to wait until reportgroup lock error

LOGDIR - Directory for RANCID logs

MAILDOMAIN - Defines email domain

MAILHEADERS - Additional mail headers

MAX_ROUNDS - Number of retry attempts

NOPIPE - Temporary files vs. IPC

OLDTIME - Failure report interval

PAR_COUNT - Failure report interval

TERM - Terminal type

TMPDIR - Temporary files directory