[65440] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [RE: [Activity logging & archiving tool]]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Tue Nov 25 17:41:38 2003
In-Reply-To: <794HkyVCN4304S07.1069795693@uwdvg007.cms.usa.net>
Cc: <dlockwood@shastalink.k12.ca.us>, <priyantha@wightman.ca>,
<nanog@nanog.org>, <Brennan_Murphy@NAI.com>
From: Joe Abley <jabley@isc.org>
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 16:48:00 -0500
To: joshua sahala <joshua.ej.smith@usa.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On 25 Nov 2003, at 16:28, joshua sahala wrote:
>
> <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
I once wrote a rancid-like tool that did that (scripted config gets
triggered by syslog). I haven't touched it since I met rancid, but some
people tell me that they like it:
ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/ciscoconf/ciscoconf-1.1.tar.gz
Joe
