From: Scott Morris (swm@emanon.com)
Date: Mon Dec 11 2006 - 21:41:48 ART
Consulting anyone? ;)
-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of Tony
Schaffran
Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 10:38 AM
To: 'Darby Weaver'; 'Brad Ellis'; 'Cisco certification'
Subject: RE: Rancid anyone?
"Go sell crazy somewhere else. We are all fulled up here."
What is your commission for this SPAM?
Tony Schaffran
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-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
Darby Weaver
Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2006 9:35 PM
To: Darby Weaver; Brad Ellis; Cisco certification
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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