From: Darby Weaver (darbyweaver@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Dec 11 2006 - 13:18:48 ART
This is what I am talking about.
A great tool that can be used in a lab environment or
in production.
Very cool either way.
--- "VirtRack.com Mailing Lists"
<ciscolists@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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