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Re: Network configuration archiving
From: Christopher Rogers <phiber () phiber org>
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 21:19:08 -0700
Rancid is great, we use it. It's hard to justify paying money for something that really isn't that complicated, especially stupid licensing fees. One of my problems with rancid though is that many of the commands it runs can be somewhat intrusive, and also smacks of trying to use a configuration management system as an active monitoring tool. Go into the commandtable entries for your various devices, and remove everything except the show running-config bits (or whatever your $vendor uses) and you'll run into a lot less risk of blowing a device up with rancid, also a lot quicker execution times. Or just remove rancid entirely, and just ssh show running-config (using rsa keys) on your devices and dump the output into cvs/svn/whatever. Not everything has ssh though. :( -chris 2013/10/24 Jon Lewis <jlewis () lewis org>
Or use perfectly good (RANCID + cvsweb) free software. Hmm. On Thu, 24 Oct 2013, Kenneth McRae wrote: By device or you can purchase an unlimited device count..On Oct 24, 2013 8:59 PM, "Tammy Firefly" <tammy-lists () wiztech biz> wrote: Is that licensed per device or per user out of curiosity ?Sent from my iPhone On Oct 24, 2013, at 21:45, Kenneth McRae <kenneth.mcrae () dreamhost com> wrote: Hiw about SolarWinds Config Mgmt software?On Oct 24, 2013 8:38 PM, "Jimmy Hess" <mysidia () gmail com> wrote: On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Job Snijders <job.snijders@hibernianetworks.**com<job.snijders () hibernianetworks com>> wrote: Dear all,I am unsure what we as networkers have done in the past, but I am sure we've done our fair share of atonement and don't have to keep using RANCID.Does the nature of the codebase and future development matter all that much? Not to dismiss it as a factor, but I think other criteriashouldbe more important :)Nrmally when I would want to compare software ---- I would beconcernedfirst and foremost, (1) What does it do/what makes it unique -- issomething special about package X over package Y?; (2) Does it meet all the minimum needs I have right now to be aviablesolution?Does it grab all my configs and put them in a permanent revision control system? :) (3) How reliable is it, can I trust it? Is it very secure and safe to use? It's no good if it breaks, fails, or does something dangerous. How much care and feeding will it need to keep working? If it needs complex repair work every few weeks, I don't like it. (4) How easy is it to get up and running, and to perform any required ongoing maintenance (5) What extra nice to have functionality does it have? (6) Maybe other stuff like what language its written in, if extra features need to be added -- -JH------------------------------**------------------------------**---------- Jon Lewis, MCP :) | I route | therefore you are _________ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/**pgp<http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp>for PGP public key_________
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- Re: Network configuration archiving chip (Oct 25)
- Re: Network configuration archiving Saku Ytti (Oct 25)
- Re: Network configuration archiving Phil Bedard (Oct 25)
- Re: Network configuration archiving Saku Ytti (Oct 25)
- Re: Network configuration archiving Kenneth McRae (Oct 24)
- RE: Network configuration archiving Nolan Rollo (Oct 24)
- Re: Network configuration archiving Tammy Firefly (Oct 24)
- Re: Network configuration archiving Kenneth McRae (Oct 24)
- Re: Network configuration archiving Jon Lewis (Oct 24)
- Re: Network configuration archiving Christopher Rogers (Oct 24)
- Re: Network configuration archiving Job Snijders (Oct 25)
- Re: Network configuration archiving Matthew Newton (Oct 25)
- Re: Network configuration archiving R. Scott Evans (Oct 25)
- Re: Network configuration archiving Michael Kehoe (Oct 25)
- Re: Network configuration archiving Ricky Beam (Oct 25)
- RE: Network configuration archiving Jamie Bowden (Oct 28)
- Re: Network configuration archiving Jared Mauch (Oct 25)