[22523] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cisco config checker
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Cengiz Alaettinoglu)
Fri Jan 8 15:34:33 1999
From: Cengiz Alaettinoglu <cengiz@isi.edu>
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 12:18:15 -0800 (PST)
To: "Randall S. Benn http://www.clark.net/pub/rbenn" <rbenn@clark.net>
Cc: Pete Kruckenberg <pete@kruckenberg.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19990107232641.008c1840@pop.clark.net>
Reply-to: cengiz@isi.edu
Randall S. Benn http://www.clark.net/pub/rbenn (rbenn@clark.net) on January 7:
> There are 4 commercially available products I know of that will do off-line
> router configurations:
And there are also some free ones. RtConfig
(http://www.isi.edu/ra/RAToolSet) is being used to configure many
small and large ISP routers.
(I could not resist to advertise a "free" product.)
>
> 1. CiscoWorks
> 2. Cisco ConfigMaker
> 3. Go Figure! (for Palm Pilots)
> 4. RouterAssistant
>
> The caveat here is that these products probably won't handle the
> "industrial strength" configuration parameters that would be required in an
> ISP environment and also have limited platform support. They might be
> worth a look, though, since some can also help with configuration
> management tasks.
>
> If you're interested, you can find links to them in the IOS section of my
> web page:
> http://www.clark.net/pub/rbenn/cisco.html#ios-config
>
> Randy
>
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>
> At 10:29 PM 1/3/99 -0700, Pete Kruckenberg wrote:
> >Is there such a thing as a Cisco config checker, to allow off-line editing
> >of Cisco configs and check them before they're uploaded to the router?
> >Preferrably something that could be used in a Web/Unix environment as a
> >filter.
> >
> >If not, does anyone know of a source for a complete definition of Cisco
> >configuration language, in some kind of standardized format, so I could
> >possibly generate a config-checker myself?
> >
> >Thanks.
> >Pete.
> >
> >
Cengiz
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