Config Source Cached?
I have a deprecated config source from LM that collects from FortiGate Firewalls, collects a config, and it keeps having a difference check on lines with #conf_file_ver=. We have kept this deprecated config source because it has some customizations. But I figured out, or so I thought, why that regex wasnt working to ignore those lines, because the LM UI when viewing the config isnt showing some white space characters. So made a clone, applied it to just a couple of servers, changed the regex. Tested it in regex101 and did it a couple different ways, cant get it working but I know the regex is right. But anyway, waiting for real changes in that line is super tedious. So I changed my clone to just hard code spit out a "config" of 5 lines of the top of the config, with the groovy making a random change to one character on the line I'm testing. So that I could at least check hourly (the shortest config running time). When I test my config script in the Config Source editor, it does exactly what I want, changing 1 character on the line I want to ignore. But when I save and let it run on my actual device, the first time it runs, it generates a random number in the slot I wanted. But ALL repeats generate that same number. Whereas in the edit/test of the config source its different every time. SO I'm just wondering why the heck my config script is making the value I did on the first time it ran but never changing it, even though the Last Checked time is changing every hour, implying the config source is running. Is there some weird caching that happens when the device isnt really being queried and the script is just generating sample data? I dont get it. But prior to that when I was working with a clone that really pulled the config, I could get neither of these to work, even though they both match perfectly on regex101: Ignore lines with regex "(^|\s+|\t+)#conf_file_ver.*" Ignore lines with regex "^\s*#conf_file_ver.*" But thats beside the point. I cant figure out what weird LM quirk is messing up my regex, both of which work on regex101 and one of which matches the ones LM uses in that datasource (the first one). My real issue is wondering if a script config that generates data from a script without reaching out to the device, that is hourly, why is LM delivering me the same config from that script every time, even though with I edit the configsource and test my own script, the random changes the character correctly? Driving me wild over here. :) You can see in the image that after a few hours where its clearly been running a bunch of times, LM is giving me the 8:04 am run on both sides of the DIFF even though if you look, you can see that its checked it .... 4 more times now, at 9, 10, 11, and 12. GRR. I'm sure its a ME thing. But wondering if there is something I'm missing.
