From: Alex De Gruiter (Alex.deGruiter@didata.com.au)
Date: Thu Dec 21 2006 - 17:52:35 ART
We manage around 200+ devices and I can promise that having something
like NetConfig makes life a whole lot easier when making global changes
- like access-classes on VTYs and NTP configuration.
CiscoWorks has its limitations, but its certainly a powerful tool.
My $0.02.
Alex
-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
anthony.sequeira@thomson.com
Sent: Friday, 22 December 2006 12:56 AM
To: rguyler@shp-dayton.org; ccielab@groupstudy.com;
jjrinehart@hotmail.com
Subject: RE: Pushing Configuration to Cisco Routers/Switches
Hi Joe!
The most current version of CiscoWorks for infrastructure
(router/switch) management is called CiscoWorks LAN Management Solution
(LMS) 2.6.
This product features two applications for pushing configurations to
devices. The product also stores all configurations in an archive for
you to enable version management.
The first application is called Config Editor - it allows for the quick
pushing of a configuration to a single device.
The second application is called NetConfig - this application is
designed to push configurations to multiple systems in batch. It
features templates for common configurations - such as changing
passwords, banner messages, etc.
Both applications offer a variety of transport mechanisms for the actual
configuration deployment including - telnet, TFTP, HTTPS, SSH, or RCP.
You get to select which transports to use and in what order to try them
on the devices.
Both of these applications are found in the LMS subset of applications
called Resource Manager Essentials by the way in case you want more
information on them from Cisco's Web site.
I have used these applications in the lab and in production to deliver
configurations and they do work. The latest version of NetConfig solves
issues when trying to push LARGE numbers of configurations (over 50 at
one time) but admittedly, I have never tried that.
Anthony J. Sequeira
#15626
-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
Guyler, Rik
Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2006 7:20 AM
To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: RE: Pushing Configuration to Cisco Routers/Switches
Depends on what CiscoWorks you're talking about. I have the unfortunate
displeasure of owning VMS and it does SSH into various boxes for various
things. Now if it just did what it's supposed to do... ;-)
Rik
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From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
Darby Weaver
Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 11:27 PM
To: Joe Rinehart; ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: Re: Pushing Configuration to Cisco Routers/Switches
Joe,
Nothing to do with SSH actually. Alot to do with SNMP or automating
interactive scripts.
I like SNMP.
Remember a little while back I mentioned RANCID here, well you can use
it to push configs automatically.
Solarwinds has a product called Cirrus that does the same thing for
Configutarion Management.
The company that makes AdventNet has an offering as well.
There are others no doubt but this will give you a place to start.
If you have a *Nix background look at RANCID, if you don't have *Nix
background it may just be the incentive you have been looking for.
Good Luck!
--- Joe Rinehart <jjrinehart@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hey folks, real-world question here.
>
> I know that newer versions of CiscoWorks and other applications have
> the capability of pushing configurations to routers and switches. How
> exactly does it do that and how can that basic functionality be
> created? I figure its an ssh kind of thing, but not sure.
>
>
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
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