Building RANCID Server from Scratch

This document outlines how to build RANCID from Scratch, using the name of switch1 and ip of 192.168.3.10, and rostring of community1

1. Install Ubuntu 16.04
2. sudo apt-get install rancid cvs
3. sudo su
4. nano /etc/rancid/rancid.conf

Append:
LIST_OF_GROUPS="switches"

5. sudo su -c /var/lib/rancid/bin/rancid-cvs -s /bin/bash -l rancid
6. nano /var/lib/rancid/switches/router.db

Append:

switch1;cisco;up

7. Modify /etc/hosts

Append:

192.168.3.10 switch1

8. Create .cloginrc file @ /var/lib/rancid/switches

add method {ssh}
add cypertype {3des}
add user {useracc}
add password {enable-password} {enable-password}
add autoenable


9. Modify permissions on the following files:

/var/lib/rancid# chmod a-r .cloginrc
/var/lib/rancid# chmod u+r .cloginrc
/var/lib/rancid# chown rancid .cloginrc
/var/lib/rancid# chgrp rancid .cloginrc

10. This will run the actual rancid command
sudo su -c /var/lib/rancid/bin/rancid-run -s /bin/bash -l rancid

11. This will add it to Crontab for nightly:
crontab -e
/0 0 * * * /usr/bin/rancid-run

12. Perform the following if you get weird errors about encryption:

sudo su rancid
cd ~/
mkdir .ssh
cd .ssh
nano config

"KexAlgorithms +diffie-hellman-group1-sha1" 

13. Install snmpd 
 sudo apt-get install snmpd
sudo mv snmpd.conf snmpd.conf.old
sudo nano snmpd.conf

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