Interface with "connected" in the description is incorrectly reported as as connected interface by cisco_ios_show_interfaces_status

[classicmac]

ISSUE TYPE

• Template Issue with error and raw data

TEMPLATE USING

Value PORT (\S+)
Value NAME (.+?)
Value STATUS (err-disabled|disabled|connected|notconnect|inactive|up|down|monitoring|suspended)
Value VLAN (\S+)
Value DUPLEX (\S+)
Value SPEED (\S+)
Value TYPE (.*)
Value FC_MODE (\S+)

Start
  ^Load\s+for\s+
  # Capture time-stamp if vty line has command time-stamping turned on
  ^Time\s+source\s+is
  ^-+\s*$$
  ^Port\s+Name\s+Status\s+Vlan\s+Duplex\s+Speed\s+Type -> Interfaces
  ^\s*$$
  ^. -> Error

Interfaces
  #Match fc...
  ^\s*${PORT}\s+is\s+${STATUS}\s+Port\s+mode\s+is\s+${FC_MODE}\s*$$ -> Record
  ^\s*${PORT}\s+is\s+${STATUS}\s+\(${TYPE}\)\s*$$ -> Record
  ^\s*${PORT}\s+${STATUS}\s+${VLAN}\s+${DUPLEX}\s+${SPEED}\s*${TYPE}$$ -> Record
  ^\s*${PORT}\s+${NAME}\s+${STATUS}:\s+${VLAN}\s+${DUPLEX}\s+${SPEED}\s*${TYPE}$$ -> Record
  ^\s*${PORT}\s+${NAME}\s+${STATUS}\s+${VLAN}\s+${DUPLEX}\s+${SPEED}\s*${TYPE}$$ -> Record
  ^-+
  ^\s*$$
  ^. -> Error

SAMPLE COMMAND OUTPUT

Port      Name               Status       Vlan       Duplex  Speed Type
Fa0/1     *** connected to U notconnect   150          auto   auto 10/100BaseTX

SUMMARY

When an interface has the text "connected" in the interface description it is being reported as a connected interface even when the interface isn't connected.

EXPECTED RESULTS

Interface is only reported as connected when the status is connected.

ACTUAL RESULTS

Interface was reported as connected when it wasn't.

[mjbear]

I was hoping this would be a really simple fix, but VLAN ID can't be made exclusively numeric due to trunk and routed showing up in the output.

[mjbear]

@classicmac Because VLAN (now VLAN_ID capture group) is a \S+ it can accidentally match other fields (after the cascade of other columns matching text in say the Name field).

This results in the below incorrect structured data.

{
	"DUPLEX": "U",
	"FC_MODE": "",
	"NAME": "***",
	"PORT": "Fa0/1",
	"SPEED": "notconnect",
	"STATUS": "connected",
	"TYPE": "150          auto   auto 10/100BaseTX",
	"VLAN": "to"
}

Changing the VLAN ID to \d+ will resolve this only when there is numeric data in the VLAN field. It is necessary to add other possible keywords (trunk and routed) as well.

Worked up PR #1449 that fixes this

[ryanmerolle]

This was merged, please close issue.

[jvanderaa]

Curious why these issues are not auto-closing like GH should be.