Hi, > We heavily comment our configs and back them up in RCS file (mostly 6500s). > There are also commands that are more clearly understood when entered as a > multiple single CLIs, but then show up in config as a summarized single > entry. There is also the ACL entries which get optimized and are not in the > order they were entered. > > Doesn't RANCID only compare the current running to a saved running config. > So in our case we still have to keep a commented file history around.
RANCID etc for storing running-config, startup-config etc. - or home-made tools to do the same... only trouble is, RANCID will only poll devices on intervals.. so several things can happen within that time...so use eg TACACS+ command logging to log actual activities. these logs can either be put into DB or you can trigger a RANCID collect of a device when certain commands are run (and caught via TACACS+) depends on how convoluted/extensive you want everything to be even better when a command in IOS ends up providing a very much bigger config (autoqos voip anyone? ;-) ) alan _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
