Thu, May 17, 2018 at 07:28:28PM +0000, Chris Davis: > We are looking at jumping off our current switch platform for a number of > annoying reasons and are considering a couple of options for replacement. I > use Rancid pretty heavily and I wondered if I could get some feedback on how > Rancid works with those vendors (it seems there's support, but the devil is > in the details) from people using the equipment. > > We're looking at Fortinet switches, as we use their firewalls. I have Rancid > well integrated with the firewalls and as I understand it, the switches are > downloaded from the firewalls when in linked mode. Do the switch configs get > uploaded to rancid as part of the firewall's configuration backup? Or do you > have to somehow interrogate each switch separately like we do for our current > switches? > > The other option we're looking at is Extreme. I see that it is managed by > the standard clogin (according to the Rancid docs) and just wondered if there > was anything to be aware of with interfacing to their gear.
I can't comment on fortinet, but the extreme ought to work. however, it has been at least a year since I've had feed back about one. Also, recommend considering juniper and arista. _______________________________________________ Rancid-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://www.shrubbery.net/mailman/listinfo/rancid-discuss
