[128915] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: tool to wrangle config file changes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Beth Johnson)
Fri Aug 20 09:39:46 2010
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Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 06:39:29 -0700
From: Beth Johnson <bethjohnson5060@gmail.com>
To: scubacuda@gmail.com
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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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?)
>
>
