From: john matijevic (john.matijevic@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Aug 30 2007 - 18:06:50 ART
Hello,
If you are looking at a simple tool, with not much training involved, I
would look at Cirrus Solarwinds, that seems to be the best utility,
CiscoWorks is ok, but not as easy in my opinion, to work with.
Sincerely,
John
On 8/30/07, Alexei Monastyrnyi <alexeim@orcsoftware.com> wrote:
>
> Sorry if jumping in too late.
>
> You could just enable rcmd/rsh on IOS boxes and place a cron job on a
> Unix box going through your Cisco devices with
>
> /usr/bin/rsh routerN.yourdomain.com "sh run" > routerN.cfg
>
> HTH,
> A.
>
> Mohammad Saeed wrote:
> > Narbik, Derby and Bob,
> >
> > I appreciate very much all of your responses and I will try this Kron
> > process in my home lab. Actually I need to suggest this to be used on
> > big networks having 2000+ devices....
> >
> > Again Thank you very much for your time and kind support :):):)
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Mohammad Zahed Saeed
> >
> > On 8/30/07, Bob Nelson <nelsnjr@cox.net> wrote:
> >
> >> I came across this in a post a while back. I have not tried it, but
> the
> >> commands appear to work in my dynamips test router.
> >>
> >> To get an IOS device to upload it's configuration periodically to an
> >> external (T)FTP server try this
> >>
> >> ip tftp source-interface loopback 0
> >> file prompt quiet
> >> !
> >> kron policy-list backup
> >> cli copy running-config tftp://10.20.30.40
> >> !
> >> kron occurrence daily-backup at 30:0:0 recurring
> >> policy-list backup
> >>
> >> The beauty of this example is that you can use it on platforms that
> don't
> >> support Embedded Event Manager (which has a very similar cron
> functionality)
> >> as the kron commands were introduced in 12.2T and 12.3 IOS releases.
> >>
> >> Note: You have to use the file prompt quiet configuration command as
> the
> >> commands executed by kron cannot supply any user input
> >>
> >> If you want to use FTP instead, you would add the following commands
> for
> >> authentication and change the method to ftp
> >> ip ftp username ftp_username
> >> ip ftp password ftp_password
> >>
> >> HTH
> >>
> >> Bob
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Narbik Kocharians" <narbikk@gmail.com>
> >> To: "Mohammad Saeed" <mzsaeed@gmail.com>
> >> Cc: "Cisco certification" <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
> >> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 10:42 PM
> >> Subject: Re: Auomating IOS/Config Backup
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> I have not tried what you are trying to do, but have you tried playing
> >>> with Kron?
> >>>
> >>> On 8/29/07, Mohammad Saeed <mzsaeed@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Hello Group,
> >>>>
> >>>> Can any one point me to the document/link or tell me if there is any
> >>>> way that we can configure router/switch to upload its running/startup
> >>>> config and IOS in the flash to a particular TFTP server automatically
> >>>> at some particular time like say for example end of month every
> >>>> month????
> >>>>
> >>>> Any help is highly appreciated.
> >>>>
> >>>> Regards,
> >>>>
> >>>> Mohammad Zahed Saeed
> >>>>
> >>>>
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