Re: [swinog] aside from my economical warfare problems: a simple, python pexpect based cisco config archiver to SVN (not using SFTP but the CLI).

I probably forgot to mention the vendor-specific plugins: https://github.com/ssinyagin/gerty-plugins From: Marco Fretz marco.fr...@gmail.com I'm planning to check out gerty as it seems promising and look like a good approach to combine and centralize some

Re: [swinog] aside from my economical warfare problems: a simple, python pexpect based cisco config archiver to SVN (not using SFTP but the CLI).

On Jan 11, 2012, at 3:55 PM, Philippe Strauss wrote: yuk must be difficult to get one single dime from a cisco config archiver :-) more seriously, I prefer a 4 pages code I can comprehend and bend at my taste. I totally agree. I'm using my own scripts (mostly shell scripts) for config

Re: [swinog] aside from my economical warfare problems: a simple, python pexpect based cisco config archiver to SVN (not using SFTP but the CLI).

for a few dollars more ... take a look at the *MyConf* Cisco config backup, archive and copmpare tool at http://www.myport-tools.ch Its not using cvs or svn like rancid but using its own archive structure and in addition it has a graphical web interface. kind regards sigi Philippe Strauss

Re: [swinog] aside from my economical warfare problems: a simple, python pexpect based cisco config archiver to SVN (not using SFTP but the CLI).

yuk must be difficult to get one single dime from a cisco config archiver :-) more seriously, I prefer a 4 pages code I can comprehend and bend at my taste. it was sent to this list when doing some housekeeping of my HDD and oohh, this one may still be usefull to someone else. Le 11 janv. 2012

Re: [swinog] aside from my economical warfare problems: a simple, python pexpect based cisco config archiver to SVN (not using SFTP but the CLI).

surely I fully agree with you (the 4 page code) but an ios by cisco isnt an ios by cisco ... is a world full of surprises ;-) sigi Philippe Strauss wrote: yuk must be difficult to get one single dime from a cisco config archiver :-) more seriously, I prefer a 4 pages code I can comprehend

Re: [swinog] aside from my economical warfare problems: a simple, python pexpect based cisco config archiver to SVN (not using SFTP but the CLI).

a 4-page script with no documentation, no revision control, and hardcoded paths? Some people call it a dirty hack :) For a real software, have a look at https://github.com/ssinyagin/gerty It's not released yet, but already used in a couple of production installations. Plenty of documentation

Re: [swinog] aside from my economical warfare problems: a simple, python pexpect based cisco config archiver to SVN (not using SFTP but the CLI).

python is terribly dificult to decipher, you're right stanislav. it is as it is, not more, not less, there's two paths to adapt, the right amount of comments, and you must run the configtree.py to get an idea of the traversal of the tree for building the configuration data. if you prefer git

[swinog] aside from my economical warfare problems: a simple, python pexpect based cisco config archiver to SVN (not using SFTP but the CLI).

code is small enough to be bende according to your taste: http://www.philou.ch/cisco-term-backup.html cheers. -- Philippe Strauss http://www.philou.ch/ ___ swinog mailing list swinog@lists.swinog.ch