On Feb 28, 2014, at 9:35 PM, Dale W. Carder <dwcarder@wisc.edu> wrote:
Thus spake Keegan Holley (no.spam@comcast.net) on Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 09:49:19AM -0500:
I wasn’t saying just fix it. I was saying that router configs don’t lend well to versioning.
Um, what?
$> rlog r-cssc-b280c-1-core.conf | grep 'total revision' total revisions: 2009; selected revisions: 2009
I wish you were here to see my eyes rolling.. 2009 versions of something are no more grok-able than one current version. Congrats, you have a config backup system.
When it’s a router config chances are someone fat-fingered something. Most of the time the best thing to do is to fix or at least alert on the error, not to record it as a valid config version.
We have our operators manually check in revisions (think in rcs terms: co -l router, go do work, verify it, ci -u router) rather than unsolicited / cron-triggered checkins. Then the check-in message contains the operator's description text of the change and often a ticket number. So there slightly fewer fat-finger configs checked in.
That’s not what the OP was looking for AFAIK. This is just change management.
Dale