Ok, so based on what's been written here, here is the list of tools mentioned so far RANCID - http://www.shrubbery.net/rancid/ Inventory (formerly ZipTie) - http://inventory.alterpoint.com/ NocProject - http://redmine.nocproject.org/projects/noc/wiki Notch - http://code.google.com/p/notch/ Cisco-Conf-Repository http://cisco-conf-rep.sourceforge.net/ I've also heard of Gerty, though as far as I understand, it's still a work in progress: https://github.com/ssinyagin/gerty And another solution is Netdot - http://netdot.uoregon.edu/ which will do inventory management (at least on Cisco), though it will rely on Rancid to fetch the configurations. ... I'll try and find the time to write a short summary of features for each (conf. backup, conf management/provisioning, inventory management) and post here. Cheers, Phil