[c-nsp] OT: network inventory

[Adam Greene]

OK, great thanks. I think we will give rancid a whirl. I assume that I'll be 
able to tftp whatever config file rancid creates back into a new device 
should we experience a hardware failure.

Thanks again
Adam

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jon Lewis" <jlewis at lewis.org>
To: "Adam Greene" <maillist at webjogger.net>
Cc: <cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net>
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 9:32 AM
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] OT: network inventory


> 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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