On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Roger E. Rustad, Jr. <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm looking for an open source tool that will keep track of configs and > alert on changes. I've heard a lot of good things about RANCID and was > wondering if anyone else had any suggestions or alternatives.
I have none. We use rancid and love it. Initial configuration was a little hard to wrap my head around, but once I realized how it worked on the backend, it was very easy to setup for additional devices. We setup 3 groups: core, firewall, and office. We run core and firewall every couple hours and office once daily via a cronjob by the user rancid: 0 */2 * * * /usr/local/rancid/bin/rancid-run core firewall 0 2 * * * /usr/local/rancid/bin/rancid-run office admin51 var # pwd /usr/local/rancid/var admin51 var # vdir total 28 drwxrwxr-x 6 rancid apache 4096 Oct 11 2009 CVS drwxr-x--- 4 rancid apache 4096 Aug 19 08:00 core drwxr-x--- 4 rancid apache 4096 Aug 19 08:00 firewall drwxr-x--- 2 rancid apache 8192 Aug 19 08:00 logs drwxr-x--- 4 rancid apache 4096 Aug 19 02:00 office You could just as easily use subversion with a single setting in the config file if you preferred that over CVS. And then (internally) using viewvc.cgi with the root of /usr/local/rancid/var makes it so that the entire history of changes (both hardware and configs) is visible. We really like it. It's solid once you get it configured. -- Regards... Todd I seek the truth...it is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance that does harm. -- Marcus Aurealius _______________________________________________ LinuxUsers mailing list [email protected] http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
