From: Godswill Oletu (oletu@inbox.lv)
Date: Mon Dec 11 2006 - 09:28:27 ART
Darby,
That was one darn good sales piece; hope you negotiated a very fat
commission?:)
Godswill Oletu
CCIE #16464
----- Original Message -----
From: "Darby Weaver" <darbyweaver@yahoo.com>
To: "Darby Weaver" <darbyweaver@yahoo.com>; "Brad Ellis"
<brad@ccbootcamp.com>; "Cisco certification" <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 12:34 AM
Subject: Re: Rancid anyone?
> If you are located in the US, regardless of your
> feelings, chances are that you need rancid or
> something like it for legal compliance -- between SOX,
> FISMA, and HIPAA, most commercial and government
> entities need lots of monitoring. If you don't think
> you need it now, but you are subject to any kind of
> auditing and haven't been audited yet, do yourself a
> favor and implement it now.
>
> Quite aside from legal issues, tools like rancid are
> great for lots of real-life reasons. They are good
> for:
>
> * detecting surprise changes ("when did that change
> occur? Sure would be nice to have an automated tool
> to tell us when someone makes a change in the middle
> of the night and forgets to send email");
>
> * security monitoring of routers ("where did that
> permissive ACL come from? Sure would be nice if a
> tool could tell us what changes occurred on routers,
> so if anything suspicious happens, we can know
> immediately instead of when it ends up in the media");
>
> * exercising router flashes ("Whoops, the flash went
> bad but the device continued to function in-memory, so
> nobody noticed until a power outage. Sure would be
> nice if we had a tool that periodically logged in to
> devices and ran a bunch of commands that demonstrate
> that it is working well");
>
> * backing up configs ("Our last manual backup of the
> router config was 5 years ago; we've upgraded it
> twice, and added lots of ACLs since then. Wouldn't an
> automated way to get config backups make sense?")
>
>
> --- Darby Weaver <darbyweaver@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Actually,
> >
> > I was thinking more of SolarWind's Cirrus product.
> >
> > And I was talking about Rancid and its usage of CVS
> > (Common Versioning System) to email configs of one's
> > network's devices to report change.
> >
> > I was thinking in terms of using these tools in
> > conjuntion with Cisco ACS for instance in the sense
> > of
> > Change Management and accountability.
> >
> >
> >
> > --- Brad Ellis <brad@ccbootcamp.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I fly a Cirrus SR-22...does that count???
> > >
> > > (actually, the darn thing almost ran me over
> > > yesterday...was pulling it out
> > > of the hanger down a steep downslope and the
> > > co-pilot side brakes
> > > failed...not a fun day)
> > >
> > > -b
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Darby Weaver" <darbyweaver@yahoo.com>
> > > To: "Cisco certification" <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
> > > Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2006 9:19 PM
> > > Subject: Rancid anyone?
> > >
> > >
> > > > Anyone using Rancid?
> > > >
> > > > Or are most using CatTools? CiscoWorks? or
> > Cirrus?
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
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