RANCID (''Really Awesome New Cisco confIg Differ'') is a
network management
Network management is the process of administering and managing computer networks. Services provided by this discipline include fault analysis, performance management, provisioning of networks and maintaining quality of service. Network manageme ...
application released under a BSD-style license.
[http://www.shrubbery.net/rancid/LICENSE.txt ]
RANCID uses
Expect
Expect is an extension to the Tcl scripting language written by Don Libes. The program automates interactions with programs that expose a text terminal interface. Expect, originally written in 1990 for the Unix platform, has since become avai ...
to connect to the routers, send some commands and put the results in files.
Software which utilises RANCID-collected configs
LibreNMSObserviumOpenNMS
See also
*Network management system
Network monitoring is the use of a system that constantly monitors a computer network for slow or failing components and that notifies the network administrator (via email, SMS or other alarms) in case of outages or other trouble. Network monitorin ...
(NMS)
*Console Server
A terminal server connects devices with a serial port to a local area network (LAN). Products marketed as terminal servers can be very simple devices that do not offer any security functionality, such as data encryption and user authenticati ...
* Router
*Switch
In electrical engineering, a switch is an electrical component that can disconnect or connect the conducting path in an electrical circuit, interrupting the electric current or diverting it from one conductor to another. The most common type ...
References
* Shrubbery Networks, Inc
RANCID
External links
* Website of RANCID
- Really Awesome New Cisco confIg Differ
* Joe Abley and Stephen Stuart: Internet Software Consortium
Internet Systems Consortium, Inc., also known as ISC, is a Delaware-registered, 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation that supports the infrastructure of the universal, self-organizing Internet by developing and maintaining core production-quality so ...
* Peter Harrison
Network Device Backups with Rancid
at linuxhomenetworking.com
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Free network management software
Configuration management
Software using the BSD license