[f-nsp] using

[Bruce Rodger]

It's (rancid) a very useful tool. I find that the main benefit is not that it
backs up the configs, but that it tells you what has changed, and
when. Very useful in an environment where several people are modifying
router configs.

I run it hourly, and I regularly get mails like the one below, which
shows that during the last hour someone has added a "spanning tree"
statement to one particular config.

It's clever enough to know about things in the config that you would expect
to change - timestamps etc.

The only real problem I've found is that occasionally when retrieving
the config from a BigIron, the module serial number (as reported by
"show version") gets corrupted, so you occasionally get emails from
rancid saying the config has changed, with a corresponding email an
hour later saying it has changed back....

Bruce.


*** 107,114 ****
   !
   vlan 3140 name SGBS-Students by port
    tagged ethe 3/11
    router-interface ve 40
+   spanning-tree
   !
   vlan 252 name Todd-Centre by port
    untagged ethe 1/5
   !
***************



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