[c-nsp] Tracking config changes

[Jeff Rooney]

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Jeff Rooney
jtrooney at nexdlevel.com



On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Bill Blackford
<BBlackford at nwresd.k12.or.us> wrote:
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Mike
> Sent: Monday, May 24, 2010 9:34 AM
> To: 'Cisco-nsp'
> Subject: [c-nsp] Tracking config changes
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> Hi Gang,
>
>    In my smallish network I am guilty sometimes of using cli to make
> cisco switch and router config changes, and sometimes I have been known
> to forget to 'wr mem' when I'm sure it's what I want. The reasons for
> this vary, but I want to be better than this disaster waiting for a
> power outage or other event to force a reset, losing something that
> could potentially be important that I may forget about later. I know
> there are approaches to this in larger envionments using config version
> control systems and such, but I think I want something simpler to at
> least notify me when/if I have a 'running config' that has been modified
> from the 'startup config' and not committed to nvram.
>
>    One approach I might think of would be to poll the devices on my
> normal snmp schedule and include a check for the last date of
> configuration change. I could easilly throw an alert if it's been more
> than an hour since the last config change/write to memory, but I don't
> know which variables I would poll for that. A secondary idea might also
> be to download the configs and commit them to cvs anytime a change is
> detected, but some here might think this is backwards and that configs
> should only be uploaded? What do you other service provider folks do?
>
> Mike-
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