Re: Cisco config checker

[Cengiz Alaettinoglu <cengiz () isi edu>]

Randall S. Benn http://www.clark.net/pub/rbenn (rbenn () clark net) on January 7:
> There are 4 commercially available products I know of that will do off-line
> router configurations:

And there are also some free ones. RtConfig
(http://www.isi.edu/ra/RAToolSet) is being used to configure many
small and large ISP routers.

(I could not resist to advertise a "free" product.)

> 1.  CiscoWorks
> 2.  Cisco ConfigMaker
> 3.  Go Figure! (for Palm Pilots)
> 4.  RouterAssistant
>
> The caveat here is that these products probably won't handle the
> "industrial strength" configuration parameters that would be required in an
> ISP environment and also have limited platform support.  They might be
> worth a look, though, since some can also help with configuration
> management tasks.
>
> If you're interested, you can find links to them in the IOS section of my
> web page:
> http://www.clark.net/pub/rbenn/cisco.html#ios-config
>
> Randy
>
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> At 10:29 PM 1/3/99 -0700, Pete Kruckenberg wrote:
> > Is there such a thing as a Cisco config checker, to allow off-line editing
> > of Cisco configs and check them before they're uploaded to the router?
> > Preferrably something that could be used in a Web/Unix environment as a
> > filter.
> >
> > If not, does anyone know of a source for a complete definition of Cisco
> > configuration language, in some kind of standardized format, so I could
> > possibly generate a config-checker myself?
> >
> > Thanks.
> > Pete.


Cengiz

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Cengiz Alaettinoglu           Information Sciences Institute
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