From: Darby Weaver (darbyweaver@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Dec 11 2006 - 21:47:46 ART
Actually would not be a bad gig.
Easy to implement.
Little to no training required to use.
By far easier to implement than CiscoWorks or most any
other product for that matter.
But mostly it is a great lab tool.
Or can be - especially if used for grading.
At least I think so.
--- Scott Morris <swm@emanon.com> wrote:
> 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
> Network Analyst
> CCIE #11071
> CCNP, CCNA, CCDA,
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>
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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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