[c-nsp] using RANCID in a CCIE lab

[Keegan Holley]

rancid is a good tool.  It's also base on expect and perl so it's easy to
modify the scripts to do other things.  I installed this in a few other labs
(non-certification) the biggest problem I ran into was everyone's tendency
to blow away the routes,interface IP's and account info that alows RANCID to
do it's work.  Beyond that it's a great tool.  Be careful where you run it.
It's a pain to install on certain linux distros.

HTH,

Keegan


2011/5/29 Saxon Jones <saxon.jones at gmail.com>

> It seems like a good idea to me. I do this manually when building test
> labs and it works quite well. Doing a config replace http from a
> cvsweb instance should let you "revert" to a previous config quite
> easily, though we use https and authentication so I never bothered to
> try that part myself.
>
> -saxon
>
> On 27 May 2011 16:10, Rogelio <scubacuda at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I would like to make a public CCIE lab for friends and have it reset
> > all the configs at pre-set times.
> >
> > Is a tool like RANCID a good way to do this?  I know that it can log
> > in and do commands at preset times, and I thought that it's DB
> > snapshots might be helpful as well.
> >
> > --
> > Also on LinkedIn?  Feel free to connect if you too are an open
> > networker: scubacuda at gmail.com
> >
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