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Re: Little survey: What do people use to backup configurations ?
From: Adam Rothschild <asr () latency net>
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 22:03:06 -0500
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 04:34:47PM -0800, Ulf Zimmermann wrote:
A while back when I was at SGI, I wrote my own scripts, using expect and tftp to backup configurations of Cisco routers. Configs then were put into rcs. Now before I am resurecting those scripts again for my current job, what are people using to backup equipment, things such as Cisco routers (26xx, 36xx, 72xx, 75xx, MSFC, RSM) and Cisco Catalyst switches (2924XL, 3548XL, 4000, 5000, 6500) ?
I'm using RANCID <http://www.shrubbery.net/> to handle this, and ViewCVS <http://www.lyra.org/viewcvs/> on a https+auth protected server to allow non eng types to peep the configs. Overall, I'm quite content. The only area where it falls short is its inability to show what users made what configuration changes, and precisely when. If anyone has a good means of doing this (by editing router configurations off-line, automagically and/or by hand, and then committing 'em via expect script? Tailing TAC+ command logs, and generating diffs accordingly? Something else I'm overlooking?), and is willing to share their source, I'd be most appreciative. -adam
Current thread:
- Little survey: What do people use to backup configurations ? Ulf Zimmermann (Feb 24)
- Re: Little survey: What do people use to backup configurations ? dsm (Feb 24)
- Re: Little survey: What do people use to backup configurations ? Bill Fumerola (Feb 24)
- Re: Little survey: What do people use to backup configurations ? Adam Rothschild (Feb 24)
- Re: Little survey: What do people use to backup configurations ? mdevney (Feb 24)
- Re: Little survey: What do people use to backup configurations ? Jeremy T. Bouse (Feb 24)
- Re: Little survey: What do people use to backup configurations ? Brian (Feb 24)
- Re: Little survey: What do people use to backup configurations ? Alan Hannan (Feb 24)
- Re: Little survey: What do people use to backup configurations ? Alan Hannan (Feb 24)