tool to wrangle config file changes
Long story short, a really crappy vendor is being shoved down our NOC's throat. They have a horrid CLI (if you can call it that). People don't understand it (it's non-intuitive) and are screwing up things all the time. In the hopes of coping with the madness, some of us are looking to put together some sort of open source configuration management tool, such as RANCID. Any luck with this on non-standard equipment, particularly ones that DO NOT allow you to output something nice and "scriptable" (e.g. Cisco's "show running-config") (If not RANCID, any other suggestions?)
I'm using this for configuration backup: http://nocproject.org/ On 19/08/2010, at 5:16 AM, Rogelio wrote:
Long story short, a really crappy vendor is being shoved down our NOC's throat. They have a horrid CLI (if you can call it that). People don't understand it (it's non-intuitive) and are screwing up things all the time.
In the hopes of coping with the madness, some of us are looking to put together some sort of open source configuration management tool, such as RANCID. Any luck with this on non-standard equipment, particularly ones that DO NOT allow you to output something nice and "scriptable" (e.g. Cisco's "show running-config")
(If not RANCID, any other suggestions?)
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 03:16, Rogelio <scubacuda@gmail.com> wrote:
Long story short, a really crappy vendor is being shoved down our NOC's throat. They have a horrid CLI (if you can call it that). People don't understand it (it's non-intuitive) and are screwing up things all the time.
Would be so kind to name the vendor so that other people would have an advance warning ?
Kiwi Cat Tools. There is a free version (supports upto 20 devices). - http://www.kiwisyslog.com/ Raymond Macharia On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Eugeniu Patrascu <eugen@imacandi.net>wrote:
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 03:16, Rogelio <scubacuda@gmail.com> wrote:
Long story short, a really crappy vendor is being shoved down our NOC's throat. They have a horrid CLI (if you can call it that). People don't understand it (it's non-intuitive) and are screwing up things all the time.
Would be so kind to name the vendor so that other people would have an advance warning ?
We are now using NAI for this. Free (really, not just a trial for some small number of devices), and you can very easily "write" plug-ins for new types of systems. http://inventory.alterpoint.com/ http://docs.inventory.alterpoint.com/doku.php?id=doc:content_guide -Scott -----Original Message----- From: Raymond Macharia [mailto:rmacharia@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 6:16 AM To: Eugeniu Patrascu Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: tool to wrangle config file changes Kiwi Cat Tools. There is a free version (supports upto 20 devices). - http://www.kiwisyslog.com/ Raymond Macharia On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Eugeniu Patrascu <eugen@imacandi.net>wrote:
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 03:16, Rogelio <scubacuda@gmail.com> wrote:
Long story short, a really crappy vendor is being shoved down our NOC's throat. They have a horrid CLI (if you can call it that). People don't understand it (it's non-intuitive) and are screwing up things all the time.
Would be so kind to name the vendor so that other people would have an advance warning ?
http://www.cfengine.org/ On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Rogelio <scubacuda@gmail.com> wrote:
Long story short, a really crappy vendor is being shoved down our NOC's throat. They have a horrid CLI (if you can call it that). People don't understand it (it's non-intuitive) and are screwing up things all the time.
In the hopes of coping with the madness, some of us are looking to put together some sort of open source configuration management tool, such as RANCID. Any luck with this on non-standard equipment, particularly ones that DO NOT allow you to output something nice and "scriptable" (e.g. Cisco's "show running-config")
(If not RANCID, any other suggestions?)
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