[192038] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: A perl script to convert Cisco IOS/Nexus/ASA configurations to
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Hennigan)
Mon Oct 10 19:33:08 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Jay Hennigan <jay@west.net>
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2016 16:33:02 -0700
In-Reply-To: <878c4ccb-4d1b-dbb4-097f-a879e241ac01@gmail.com>
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On 10/6/16 1:26 PM, Jesse McGraw wrote:
> Nanog,
>
> (This is me scratching an itch of my own and hoping that sharing it
> might be useful to others on this list. Apologies if it isn't)
>
> When I'm trying to comprehend a new or complicated Cisco router,
> switch or firewall configuration an old pet-peeve of mine is how
> needlessly difficult it is to follow deeply nested logic in route-maps,
> ACLs, QoS policy-maps etc etc
>
> To make this a bit simpler I’ve been working on a perl script to convert
> these text-based configuration files into HTML with links between the
> different elements (e.g. To an access-list from the interface where it’s
> applied, from policy-maps to class-maps etc), hopefully making it easier
> to to follow the chain of logic via clicking links and using the forward
> and back buttons in your browser to go back and forth between command
> and referenced list.
Way cool. Now to hook it into RANCID....
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