hcinetdiff – Wild route check box comparisons missing.

[Alex Puzikov]

Hi Folks.

Just realized that hcinetdiff tool does not perform comparisons on Wild route check.

Code:

% hcinetdiff NetConfig NetConfig.bkp
The comparison is completed and there is no difference.
%
% diff NetConfig NetConfig.bkp
4273c4273
<             { WILDCARD ON } --- >             { WILDCARD OFF }
%

Since we are using hcinetdiff as a validation tool to identify changes in NetConfig – this is definitely not a good news for us. 🙁

We are on Cloverleaf 5.8.5

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[Elisha Gould]

I have noticed the same. To fix this, hcinetdiff needs to be modified to add the missing configuration items (ps hcinetdiff is a tcl script and has the items that should be diff’d at the bottom)

I also found nLoad/nfSave also have the issue of missing configuration information that is required in 5.8.

[Matthew Rasmussen]

HA!

Glad you posted that!  I just realized it ignores changes to the bind address as well!

[Matthew Rasmussen]

OK, so I have been successfully add bind address detection as well as several other relevant difference values.  But there are two that i really need, but cannot access becuase they are in the prologue:

There is no pre-defined section for prologue in the default DiffList, so I tried this, but with no avail:

set DiffList(prologue) {

   { who: “GUI user” }

   { date: “Config change time/date” }

}

Any ideas?  I guess I could just pipe everything before “end_prologue” to the standard diff, but would like to do it all in the hci command if possible.

[Elisha Gould]

To include the diff for the prologue, you’ll probably need to modify some files.

The loading of the NetConfig is in: $HCIROOT/tcl/lib/cloverleaf/nci.tlib

This is missing a netcfgGetPrologue proc. See below for the update I made to grab this info:

Code:

diff nci.tlib.bak nci.tlib
109c109
#@package: nci netconfig netcfgLoad netcfgModified netcfgGetVersion netcfgGetConnList netcfgGetDestList netcfgGetConnCount runtimeGetConnCount netcfgGetGroupList netcfgGetGroupCount netcfgGetProcList netcfgGetProcCount netcfgGetConnData netcfgGetProcData netcfgGetDestData netcfgGetProcConns netcfgGetPrologue netcfgIsConnInProcess netcfgGetGroupConns netcfgIsConnInGroup netcfgGetConnCacheMsgFlag netcfgReloadLock netcfgLoadCheck runtimeRootConnCount
156a157
> #   netcfgGetPrologue   – Get the Prologue
178a180
> #    get prologue list                  netcfgGetPrologue
305a308,319
> # netcfgGetPrologue
> #
> # PACKAGE-EXPORT: netcfgGetPrologue
> #
> proc netcfgGetPrologue {} {
>     global _nfg_Prologue
>
>     NCFG:checkReload            ;# Reload if necessary
>     return $_nfg_Prologue
> }
>
> ######################################################################
670c684
    global _ncfg_ConnData _ncfg_ProcessData _ncfg_ProcessConns _ncfg_Version _nfg_Prologue
712c726
    if [getNetVersion $ncf _ncfg_Version _nfg_Prologue] {

The hcinetdiff would also need an update to compare the prologue data.

[Matthew Rasmussen]

WOW!  Thanks Elisha!!

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