[c-nsp] OT: network inventory

[Adam Greene]

Besides documenting config changes, can rancid perform a tftp backup of 
router / switch startup configs, or integrate with some other software to 
pull down the config file if a change is detected?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lamar Owen" <lowen at pari.edu>
To: <cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net>
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 8:42 AM
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] OT: network inventory


> On Tuesday 19 August 2008 08:13:28 nasir.shaikh at bt.com wrote:
>> Anybody familiar with (freeware/shareware) tools for a network
>> inventory? Install-base is 100% cisco.
>
>> Are there other utilities around that would scan the collected
>> configurations and read relevant info (descriptions, ip add, link
>> bandwidth etc)?
>
> I use OpenNMS, which is a full bore network management system.  Has great
> autodiscovery, and reads what it needs to know via SNMP.  Can do layer 2 
> link
> detections and paths.
>
> Doesn't pull in configs; rancid does that quite well.
> -- 
> Lamar Owen
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> Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute
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