s/Austin/John Heasley and others/g %ERROR%misplacedpointer% -a Thus spake Alan Hannan (alan@mindvision.com) on or about Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 10:06:42AM -0600:
Several folks mention Rancid, which is a great system for what it is meant to do, Austin deserves much kudos.
Additionally, w/ expect and cvs, one can write a custom system without too much work, but with Rancid, why bother?
A company called Gold Wire Technology (www.goldwiretech.com) has an excellent product called "Forumlator". It's more than just config archives; that's a small by-product of what it does. High level, it's an industrial strength policy-based configuration management system, Very impressive company and product. They cover much of the OSS requirements for active network management, ie, not alarms or trending, but activation and change-management, etc.
Two "tier 1" ISPs beta-tested the SW, and I think it's shipping for revenue RSN.
-alan
(...who has a vested interest in Gold Wire)
Thus spake Ulf Zimmermann (ulf@Alameda.net) on or about Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 04:34:47PM -0800:
A while back when I was at SGI, I wrote my own scripts, using expect and tftp to backup configurations of Cisco routers. Configs then were put into rcs. Now before I am resurecting those scripts again for my current job, what are people using to backup equipment, things such as Cisco routers (26xx, 36xx, 72xx, 75xx, MSFC, RSM) and Cisco Catalyst switches (2924XL, 3548XL, 4000, 5000, 6500) ?
What I am trying to archive is at least a daily backup, with again some version control to be able what changed between days.
-- Regards, Ulf.
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