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Date: Mon Dec 11 2006 - 10:13:00 ART
I have rancid polling about 500 devices....combination of Cisco and HP. It
is a great program and is free. When I first got it installed I told the
other network guys that "I was watching everything they do" and would call
them up randomly and talk about changes they had made. "So I see you set
port 16 to 100-full today?" It freaked them out until I finally showed them
what I had running. If you need any help with it contact me off list and
I'll offer any advice I can.
On 12/11/06, Godswill Oletu <oletu@inbox.lv> wrote:
>
> 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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