Subject: Cisco config generator

Happy holidays!

Has anyone found a good way (read program) to manage cisco configs? I rolled me own but it's crude at best. I was hoping for some recent tool that can handle multiple routers with common ACL's, etc. We use our oun tools, or exactly - the set of tools:

- Cisco loader, watching about sections of config - if someone remove customer, static route, interface or so on from config file, this program makes confin in the CISCO the same as in the file (remove old lines of config, resets interfaces etc); - Cisco config builder, config are build from the set of object: - the set of sections (every customer really is the single section); - the set of includes, includes can be: - generated by the data base - edited manually For example, every IP routing or ACL are generated by data base. And every day I watch another system (from RELARN.RU), they build config as the set of objects pointed to each other (example - if I describe interface, I do it by WWW and I can install ACCESS-LIST for incoming traffic, this list is an object (just as interface is an object); I write into the WWW form: Incoming access list: KIAE-IN Then I fill in another form, defining object ACCESS-LIST: KIAE-IN, and config builder authomatically build config from the interface section and add KIAE-IN ACL (and assign the number if it should be numbered access list). It's not real description, through, but hope idea is clean. Unfortunately 90% of this tools on the market are for corporative networks - DRAG-AND-DROP, build initial config (it's no easy this task), and build OSPF for 1,000 routers... It differ from ISP hardly.

Best regards,

David Van Allen - FASTNET(tm) / You Tools Corporation dave@fast.net (888)321-FAST(3278) http://www.fast.net FASTNET - Business and Personal Internet Solutions

Aleksei Roudnev, Network Operations Center, Relcom, Moscow (+7 095) 194-19-95 (Network Operations Center Hot Line),(+7 095) 239-10-10, N 13729 (pager) (+7 095) 196-72-12 (Support), (+7 095) 194-33-28 (Fax)