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 devic

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 tempera

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

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

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 wrote: > > 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: > > > > > > f

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

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 t

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%

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) h

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 mu

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 tracerou