[134995] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Is Cisco equpiment de facto for you?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Thu Jan 13 17:19:55 2011
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 16:19:10 -0600
From: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
To: Thomas Magill <tmagill@providecommerce.com>
In-Reply-To: <A1B9BAEA8FE39847BCD6C473E894B595027805F8@SDEXMB02.Proflowers.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>, Michael Ruiz <mruiz@lstfinancial.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 1/13/2011 2:44 PM, Thomas Magill wrote:
>> Cisco IOS has a similar feature.
>>
>> reload in 5
>> make changes
>> verify things are working
>> reload cancel
>
> There seems to be a better way to do it in IOS that will not reload the router:
>
> http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/12_3t/12_3t7/feature/guide/gtrollbk.html
>
> I haven't tried it since all my gear has OOB serial mgmt but it appears to let you rollback a config after a set time without a reboot. It still doesn't seem to be as nice as JUNOS rollback.
>
>
The problem is, it doesn't seem to support an automated rollback
function. You'd need OOB to get access in many cases to do the rollback.
Jack
