I have also used Solarwinds' tool - NCM (formerly known as Cirrus).
Works well with a nice interface, but obviously is not free.  I
believe it is licensed per device.

Josh

On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 3:53 PM, Rick Martin <[email protected]> wrote:
> We are actually using 2 commercial products today;
>
> 1. Cisco Works
> 2. HP Network Automation
>
>  And one home grown script on Linux that runs out and grabs the config on all 
> firewall enabled routers every night to assure that the firewall is still 
> applied - some of our techs disable firewall while troubleshooting issues and 
> "forget" to re-enable it.
>
>
>  We initially used Cisco Works only - then the security group developed the 
> Linux script for the reason state above. After a few negative audit findings 
> we purchased HP NA for the same thing so I suspect we will disable the Linux 
> script.
>
>  HP NA has turned out to be the easier product to use to fetch the old 
> config. We can compare current config to any previous config, we can see each 
> configuration change that has been made and we also use it for change 
> management on firewall enabled devices. If a change is made outside of the 
> tool then an event is triggered that the security group will investigate.
>
>  A pricy tool that has a lot of advantages over Cisco Works and TAC/ACS 
> mostly in the area of user friendliness.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Erik Sundberg
> Sent: Friday, March 02, 2012 1:57 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [c-nsp] Config Backups
>
> Quick question/poll
>
> What is everyone using for router/switch/firewall config backups?
>
> Is rancid still the one to use?
>
> Thanks
>
> Erik
>
>
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