[c-nsp] Tool To Backup Configurations

[Jens Link]

"Terry Rupeni" <rupeni_t at usp.ac.fj> writes:

> One thing we found useful in Solarwinds was a policy Reporter where
> you could easily script the manager to go through device configs and
> flag those devices that have say for example "ip http server" in the
> config. Is this possible/easy to do in Rancid?

Sure. Either use standard *NIX tools like grep to check the
configuration or something like RAT[1] or Nipper[2]

Jens

[1] Haven't used it for several years: 
<http://cisecurity.org/en-us/?route=downloads.browse.category.tools.rat>

[2] <http://www.titania.co.uk/> It's commercial now but I used the free
    version sometime back and it worked quite well.
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