From: Darby Weaver (darbyweaver@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Dec 11 2006 - 22:31:21 ART
Here you go:
http://www.shrubbery.net/rancid/
I'm telling you it will help you in your studies as
well as in the job.
I'm surprised some of these guys are being negative
about it.
It does not work on Windows.
I posted step-by-step links.
--- Darby Weaver <darbyweaver@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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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