[c-nsp] OT: network inventory

[Jon Lewis]

On Tue, 19 Aug 2008, Adam Greene wrote:

> 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?

It doesn't use tftp for it, but rancid does backup your configs and put 
them into CVS so you can see when a change was made, compare configs from 
different times, etc.  It also stores the latest versions of the configs 
as flat files, so you can easily do some scripting to do things like find 
all routers of a certain type, make a list of router names and the 
software versions they're running, etc.

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