[182990] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: A simple perl script to convert Cisco IOS configuration to HTML
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Drake)
Fri Aug 7 12:15:36 2015
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From: Robert Drake <rdrake@direcpath.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2015 12:15:24 -0400
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I was going to look at this because it sounded interesting. Maybe some
extra things it could do would be to set div/classes in some parts of
the config to denote what it is so that the user could apply css to
style it. That would allow user-defined color syntax highlighting of a
sort.
Another nice thing would be collapsible sections so if you're only
interested in BGP you can skip interfaces, or if you want to look at
route-maps, access-lists, etc.
The project looks a bit disorganized, but I only took a quick glance at
it so perhaps it does everything exactly as you intend. Are you
thinking of making any of it into modules, or defining tests? I like
the idea of running this as part of a post-rancid process, but it might
also be nice if it was a module that could be run in real-time on a
config. Then I could have a mojo wrapper daemon that called it when
users accessed /configs/*-confg, or whatever and returned the parsed
version.
Anyway, I don't want to create any more work for you, I just wanted to
kick out some ideas. If I have time I will contribute what I can, but
I'm already neck deep in some random projects. I don't mind starting
another one, but I don't want to say I'm doing something and then never
deliver. :)
