We use RANCID on our network. All changes are made through the CLI on the routers/switches, and RANCID just tracks them.
If we have an outage where we have to re-build the router's config, we have the versions and changes all stored nicely in the CVS. All changes are e-mailed to our NOC list to make sure everyone knows what is going on. ----- Original Message --------------- Subject: [c-nsp] Tracking config changes From: Mike <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 09:34:04 -0700 To: "'Cisco-nsp'" <[email protected]> >Hi Gang, > > In my smallish network I am guilty sometimes of using cli to make >cisco switch and router config changes, and sometimes I have been known >to forget to 'wr mem' when I'm sure it's what I want. The reasons for >this vary, but I want to be better than this disaster waiting for a >power outage or other event to force a reset, losing something that >could potentially be important that I may forget about later. I know >there are approaches to this in larger envionments using config version >control systems and such, but I think I want something simpler to at >least notify me when/if I have a 'running config' that has been modified >from the 'startup config' and not committed to nvram. > > One approach I might think of would be to poll the devices on my >normal snmp schedule and include a check for the last date of >configuration change. I could easilly throw an alert if it's been more >than an hour since the last config change/write to memory, but I don't >know which variables I would poll for that. A secondary idea might also >be to download the configs and commit them to cvs anytime a change is >detected, but some here might think this is backwards and that configs >should only be uploaded? What do you other service provider folks do? > >Mike- >_______________________________________________ >cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] >https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp >archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
