[Re: [nsp] Router configuration tracking tool]

Joshua Smith joshua.ej.smith@usa.net
Tue, 03 Dec 2002 10:46:27 -0500


check out rancid (www.shrubbery.net/rancid) - automagically does it all,
and is (if i remember correctly) better/currently maintained

Victor Sudakov <sudakov@sibptus.tomsk.ru> wrote:
> Pete Giligan wrote:
> > 
> > Does anyone know if cisco has developed some software
> > for router configuration tracking & cfg version
> > control.
> 
> I currently store all router configs in CVS on a FreeBSD box.
> 
> > 
> > What tool can be used for such a purpose
> > 
> > I wonder how this could be done - using tacacs logs or
> > snmp?
> 
> rcp or tftp the configs to a Unix host and put them into CVS.
> 
> You may also want to have a look at Ciscoconf:
> 
> Ciscoconf automagically fetches configuration from Cisco routers
> whenever syslog indicates that a change has been made, and stores them under
RCS.
> http://buffoon.automagic.org/dist/
> 
> -- 
> Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
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