From: Darby Weaver (darbyweaver@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Dec 11 2006 - 22:34:01 ART
"It can be used by CCIE Candidates to compare their
Lab config to the answer key of any vendor - Run it
after each lab."
How this relates to CCIE Lab Candidates:
1. We buy labs from Vendors.
2. We get finished configs for those labs.
3. We work through labs.
4. We need to grade ourselves efficiently.
5. We install and run Rancid as a service on a minimal
PC hardware - may I suggest a Raq2 with CentOS
installed - fits great in any rack. Ebay as cheap as
$20.00 + shipping... Very cheap and looks nice too.
6. We run the program after we complete a given lab.
7. It emails us the results with the differences.
8. We can check our work literally line by line. This
is really cool.
I can send you examples of what this looks like.
It is clean, easy, and sweet.
It is free.
It's your study time, invest wisely.
Now for some step by step guides...
Here are a few I've found quite useful:
http://homepage.mac.com/duling/halfdozen/RANCID-Howto.html
http://www.networkcomputing.com/channels/netsysmanagement/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=165701527
http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/rancid.htm
========================================
Where to get it:
http://www.shrubbery.net/rancid/
--- Tony Schaffran <groupstudy@cconlinelabs.com>
wrote:
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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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