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Re: [RE: [Activity logging & archiving tool]]

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (joshua sahala)
Tue Nov 25 16:29:08 2003

Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 16:28:13 -0500
From: joshua sahala <joshua.ej.smith@usa.net>
To: <Brennan_Murphy@NAI.com>, <dlockwood@shastalink.k12.ca.us>,
	<joshua.ej.smith@usa.net>, <priyantha@wightman.ca>, <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


<Brennan_Murphy@NAI.com> wrote:
> =

> Or Ciscoworks. A config change sends a syslog event to CW which in
> turn knows to go grab the latest copy of the config. I believe
> there are some reporting capabilities too, simple diff routines and
> archives of past configs. =


or if you cannot afford cisco works (or would rather spend the money =

on other things...), you can do something similar with swatch.  just
look for the syslog string:

%SYS-5-CONFIG_I: Configured from console by $user

then trigger a rancid run on that device

/joshua

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