On Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 11:45 AM Warren Kumari <warren@kumari.net> wrote:
from: me this is a common problem (or is common when I look at things, perhaps I'm looking wrongly, but...) I'd love to have something that parsed all of my device type configs and output the results into a 'database' that i could then ask questions of like: "Hey, what NTP servers are configured on all devices?" "Hey, which devices have this <access-list/firewall/user> configured on them?"
Isn't this YANG/NETCONF, and squish it all into DB/directory full of files?
yup, sort of... I think the yang parts are still not 100% there, and also then I'd need to do the 1 thing I've been avoiding (aside from printing from a unix machine) so far: "learn yang things" :)
Basically a more standardized format for representing device configurations / states?
yup! really any way that would be relatively steady over time to go from: "router config on router over there ->" to: "now in some useful way stored in a 'database'" was/is my goal... or one goal of the many goals I attempt to get to a solution for every once in a while :)