In case a model plugin doesn't work correctly (ios, procurve, etc.), you can enable live debugging of SSH/Telnet sessions. Just add a debug
option containing the value true to the input
section. The log files will be created depending on the parent directory of the logfile option.
The following example will log an active ssh/telnet session /home/oxidized/.config/oxidized/log/<IP-Address>-<PROTOCOL>
. The file will be truncated on each consecutive ssh/telnet session, so you need to put a tailf
or tail -f
on that file!
log: /home/oxidized/.config/oxidized/log
...
input:
default: ssh, telnet
debug: true
ssh:
secure: false
http:
ssl_verify: true
To start privileged mode before pulling the configuration, Oxidized needs to send the enable command. You can globally enable this, by adding the following snippet to the global section of the configuration file.
vars:
enable: S3cre7
To strip out secrets from configurations before storing them, Oxidized needs the remove_secret
flag. You can globally enable this by adding the following snippet to the global section of the configuration file.
vars:
remove_secret: true
Device models that contain substitution filters to remove sensitive data will now be run on any fetched configuration.
As a partial example from ios.rb:
cmd :secret do |cfg|
cfg.gsub! /^(snmp-server community).*/, '\\1 <configuration removed>'
(...)
cfg
end
The above strips out snmp community strings from your saved configs.
NOTE: Removing secrets reduces the usefulness as a full configuration backup, but it may make sharing configs easier.
Oxidized uses exec channels to make information extraction simpler, but there are some situations where this doesn't work well, e.g. configuring devices. This feature can be turned off by setting the ssh_no_exec
variable.
vars:
ssh_no_exec: true
Oxidized SSH input makes use of SSH keepalives to prevent timeouts from slower devices and to quickly tear down stale sessions in larger deployments. There have been reports of SSH keepalives breaking compatibility with certain OS types. They can be disabled using the ssh_no_keepalive
variable on a per-node basis (by specifying it in the source) or configured application-wide.
vars:
ssh_no_keepalive: true
By default, Oxidized registers the following auth methods: none
, publickey
and password
. However you can configure this globally, by groups, models or nodes.
vars:
auth_methods: [ "none", "publickey", "password", "keyboard-interactive" ]
Instead of password-based login, Oxidized can make use of key-based SSH authentication.
You can tell Oxidized to use one or more private keys globally, or specify the key to be used on a per-node basis. The latter can be done by mapping the ssh_keys
variable through the active source.
Global:
vars:
ssh_keys: "~/.ssh/id_rsa"
Per-Node:
...
map:
name: 0
model: 1
vars_map:
enable: 2
ssh_keys: 3
...
If you are using a non-standard path, especially when copying the private key via a secured channel, make sure that the permissions are set correctly:
foo@bar:~$ ls -la ~/.ssh/
total 20
drwx------ 2 oxidized oxidized 4096 Mar 13 17:03 .
drwx------ 5 oxidized oxidized 4096 Mar 13 21:40 ..
-r-------- 1 oxidized oxidized 103 Mar 13 17:03 authorized_keys
-rw------- 1 oxidized oxidized 399 Mar 13 17:02 id_ed25519
-rw-r--r-- 1 oxidized oxidized 94 Mar 13 17:02 id_ed25519.pub
Finally, multiple private keys can be specified as an array of file paths, such as ["~/.ssh/id_rsa", "~/.ssh/id_another_rsa"]
.
Oxidized can ssh
through a proxy as well. To do so we just need to set ssh_proxy
variable with the proxy host information and optionally set the ssh_proxy_port
with the SSH port if it is not listening on port 22.
This can be provided on a per-node basis by mapping the proper fields from your source.
An example for a csv
input source that maps the 4th field as the ssh_proxy
value and the 5th field as ssh_proxy_port
.
...
map:
name: 0
model: 1
vars_map:
enable: 2
ssh_proxy: 3
ssh_proxy_port: 4
...
When connecting to older firmware over SSH, it is sometimes necessary to enable legacy/disabled settings like KexAlgorithms, HostKeyAlgorithms, MAC or the Encryption.
These settings can be provided on a per-node basis by mapping the ssh_kex, ssh_host_key, ssh_hmac and the ssh_encryption fields from you source.
...
map:
name: 0
model: 1
vars_map:
enable: 2
ssh_kex: 3
ssh_host_key: 4
ssh_hmac: 5
ssh_encryption: 6
...
Oxidized uses ftp passive mode by default. Some devices require passive mode to be disabled. To do so, we can set input.ftp.passive
to false - this will make use of FTP active mode.
input:
ftp:
passive: false
Below is an advanced example configuration. You will be able to (optionally) override options per device. The router.db format used is hostname:model:username:password:enable_password
. Hostname and model will be the only required options, all others override the global configuration sections.
---
username: oxidized
password: S3cr3tx
model: junos
interval: 3600 #interval in seconds
log: ~/.config/oxidized/log
debug: false
threads: 30
timeout: 20
retries: 3
prompt: !ruby/regexp /^([\w.@-]+[#>]\s?)$/
crash:
directory: ~/.config/oxidized/crashes
hostnames: false
vars:
enable: S3cr3tx
groups: {}
rest: 127.0.0.1:8888
pid: ~/.config/oxidized/oxidized.pid
input:
default: ssh, telnet
debug: false
ssh:
secure: false
output:
default: git
git:
user: Oxidized
email: oxidized@example.com
repo: "~/.config/oxidized/oxidized.git"
source:
default: csv
csv:
file: ~/.config/oxidized/router.db
delimiter: !ruby/regexp /:/
map:
name: 0
model: 1
username: 2
password: 3
vars_map:
enable: 4
model_map:
cisco: ios
juniper: junos
For group specific credentials
groups:
mikrotik:
username: admin
password: blank
ubiquiti:
username: ubnt
password: ubnt
and add group mapping
map:
model: 0
name: 1
group: 2
For model specific credentials
You can add 'username: nil' if the device only expects a Password at prompt.
models:
junos:
username: admin
password: password
ironware:
username: admin
password: password
vars:
enable: enablepassword
apc_aos:
username: apc
password: password
cisco:
username: nil
password: pass
The RESTful API and Web Interface is enabled by configuring the rest:
parameter in the config file. This parameter can optionally contain a relative URI.
# Listen on http://127.0.0.1:8888/
rest: 127.0.0.1:8888
# Listen on http://10.0.0.1:8000/oxidized/
rest: 10.0.0.1:8000/oxidized
A node can be moved to head-of-queue via the REST API GET/POST /node/next/[NODE]
. This can be useful to immediately schedule a fetch of the configuration after some other event such as a syslog message indicating a configuration update on the device.
In the default configuration this node will be processed when the next job worker becomes available, it could take some time if existing backups are in progress. To execute moved jobs immediately a new job can be added automatically:
next_adds_job: true
This will allow for a more timely fetch of the device configuration.
In some instances it might not be desirable to attempt to resolve names of nodes. One such use case is when nodes are accessed through an SSH proxy, where the remote end resolves the names differently than the host on which Oxidized runs would.
Names can instead be passed verbatim to the input:
resolve_dns: false
You can use some environment variables to change default root directories values.
OXIDIZED_HOME
may be used to set oxidized configuration directory, which defaults to~/.config/oxidized
OXIDIZED_LOGS
may be used to set oxidzied logs and crash directories root, which default to~/.config/oxidized