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router.db(5)		      File Formats Manual		  router.db(5)

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)

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