[racktables-users] Re: 0.17, 0.18, VLANs

  • From: Denis Ovsienko <infrastation@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: racktables-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 08 May 2010 23:37:19 +0400

08.05.2010, 22:30, "Michael Camino" <mikeyc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> I would be interested in being a beta tester for you. Just as a FYI i
> use cat 6506, cat 6509 and cat 2975 in my enviroment.I then use 6748 and
> 6148 switch modules.

Very well.

I have my server set up the following way, and hopefully it will also work for 
you. First of all, make sure your "normal" version is 0.17.10. Then prepare a 
separate directory/hostname on the WWW server, make sure you have an SVN client 
and check out a development version to it, like this:

mkdir /var/www/html/racktables-test
svn co https://racktables.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/racktables/trunk 
/var/www/html/racktables-test

(This way, when I commit a bugfix (or a bug), it will be enough to execute "svn 
up" to get it. Commits happen often, but even if your testing copy breaks, the 
"normal" one will keep going.)

Then copy secret.php file from your "normal" copy to this one. Now you have two 
interfaces working with the same database, that's normal. New tables and 
records must be added to DB to make testing copy work (I will send an SQL 
script later, which does this). And there are additional requirements:
1. All communication with switches is performed through telnet. Telnet 
connections must be permitted from the WWW server to every switch. I recommend 
having a dedicated uniform account for RackTables on every switch.
2. Netcat must be installed on the server. I use netcat version 4, although 
other versions should work too.

If all this is acceptable, let's finish the setup off-list.

--
    Denis Ovsienko

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