[128872] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: tool to wrangle config file changes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alexander Merniy)
Thu Aug 19 02:30:41 2010
From: Alexander Merniy <alexmern@xi.uz>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTineJxZBF++MxQ1hVx8WfTdQ230HgQA2=nhvXR+-@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 11:30:11 +0500
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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?)
>
