Re: [c-nsp] Tool To Backup Configurations

2011-01-05 Thread john heasley
Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 11:06:28PM +1300, Terry Rupeni: previously we had used a commercial product Solarwinds Configuration/Policy Manager. One thing we found useful in Solarwinds was a policy Reporter where you could easily script the manager to go through device configs and flag those devices

Re: [c-nsp] rancid and inventory with ^

2010-09-07 Thread john heasley
Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 11:03:47AM +0300, Tassos Chatzithomaoglou: We get daily differences (whole config parts are removed and readded), because rancid believes that something has changed, although this is not the case. Probably has to do with the expect code. possibly; but doubtful. when i

Re: [c-nsp] rancid and inventory with ^

2010-09-07 Thread john heasley
Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 09:39:00AM +0100, Alexander Clouter: !NAME: temperature outlet 9 , DESCR: module 9 outlet temperature Sensor !NAME: temperature inlet 9 , DESCR: module 9 inlet temperature Sensor + !NAME: temperature device-1 9 , DESCR: module 9 device-1 temperature Sensor +

Re: [c-nsp] Network Change Management

2010-08-17 Thread john heasley
Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 09:18:28AM -0500, Jeff Wojciechowski: All: I know there are tools out there like RANCID that help manage configuration changes but we want something that will be able to be able to have a system that will not only be able to document what changes were made, but to also

Re: [c-nsp] App to manage pushing out changes

2010-08-13 Thread john heasley
Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 10:19:20AM -0700, Eric Cables: On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Brandon Ewing nicot...@warningg.comwrote: On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 01:24:24PM -0600, Saxon Jones wrote: CiscoWorks LMS or even RANCID will work for this. On a box with RANCID installed it's done like so:

Re: [c-nsp] [rancid] Cisco L2tp class with password and rancid

2010-07-06 Thread john heasley
Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 06:49:04PM +0100, Alan Buxey: Hi, I have an issue when I configure a l2tp-class with a password in it, every time I do a sho run the level 7 encrypted password is shown differently. When using Rancid for config backups, every time Rancid runs I receive a

Re: [c-nsp] SNMP MIB for Receiving Prefix Counts for Individual Peers

2010-06-30 Thread john heasley
Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 10:52:25AM -0400, Gary T. Giesen: Seeing as that was published in Feb 2010, I doubt it's supported by anything yet... I guess I'll have to wait and see... this is still a draft, but you should ask your vendors to add per-afi/safi support (please). juniper and cisco have

Re: [c-nsp] 6500 nvram contents changing

2010-03-22 Thread john heasley
Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 09:27:35AM +, Ben Cooper: John, It looks like Jared was correct, we had another instance of rancid running on another box a roughly the same time, I shifted the the cron job forward 30 minutes, and the diffs have stopped. i can't reproduce it. if anyone knows the

Re: [c-nsp] 6500 nvram contents changing

2010-03-19 Thread john heasley
Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 10:40:20AM -0400, Jared Mauch: This typically happens if someone is viewing the startup-config (eg: show conf) as it is locked. afaict, reading nor writing locks the nvram fsys in such a way that dir /all nvram:, the command rancid uses, fails. it seems to wait as you'd

Re: [c-nsp] RANCID Spiking CPUs

2008-06-09 Thread john heasley
Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 03:56:08PM -0400, Nick Davey: Hi All, I've deployed rancid on a fairly large metro network, and am seeing some pretty high CPU averages. When RANCID runs the CPU's on a large number of our boxes spike to about 95% for several seconds. Although they have never hit 100%, or

Re: [c-nsp] Top 10 Network Engineering Tools

2008-01-28 Thread john heasley
Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 01:02:54PM -0800, Tony Li: 1. A laptop with a built-in serial port or a USB-Serial converter that you know works (in fact, even if your laptop has a built-in serial port it could be useful to have a USB-Serial converter handy in case you need to connect to multiple

Re: [c-nsp] Top 10 Network Engineering Tools

2008-01-28 Thread john heasley
Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 12:00:20AM +, Stephen Stuart: heas said: 5. An up-to-date, fully functional TFTP server rcpd and ftp; tftp doesnt really cut it anymore. Not just any rcpd; you want jhawk's rcpd, whose README says: thats right; if can be found (with a few additions) here:

Re: [c-nsp] RFC 1918 on loopback?

2008-01-15 Thread john heasley
Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 08:56:44AM -0800, Tony Tauber: - Merger/acquisition/interconnection with another entity which uses them and there's an overlap. (That will never happen are the words which ... which FUD is made of. The dubious security argument and inter-AS debugging, such as traceroute,