From: Swan, Jay (jswan@sugf.com)
Date: Fri Dec 28 2007 - 18:42:00 ART
The large scale systems that do this usually use Expect to drive
connections through a terminal server. This is because they need to
account for stuff like password recovery scenarios and such.
One possibly simpler way to handle large scale config changes in a lab
that's totally under your control would be with RANCID. See
http://www.shrubbery.net/rancid/. Check the archives--I think someone
here might have talked about this before.
Jay
#17783
-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
Wilson, Ryan # Atlanta
Sent: Friday, December 28, 2007 10:38 AM
To: Han Solo
Cc: Cisco certification
Subject: RE: Lab Config Management
I've seen in classrooms where the config is saved to a server and you
manage the configs from a web page. Allowing you to load your base
configs to all of your routers with a couple of clicks on the web page
or save you're configurations for a later date. All this without any a
special config or manually running commands on the routers.
Any ideas how they do this?
-----Original Message-----
From: Han Solo [mailto:hansolo@ccieunix.com]
Sent: Friday, December 28, 2007 12:37 PM
To: Wilson, Ryan # Atlanta
Cc: Cisco certification
Subject: Re: Lab Config Management
I save the config's to flash on each of the local boxes. And also do so
at
different stages. So for example on R1 I might have the following in
flash:
nmc-1-r1-igp.txt
nmc-1-r1-preconfig.txt
nmc-1-r1-complete.txt
So if I want to play with ios features and such I would load the
following
copy flash start and give file nmc-1-r1-igp.txt. It works good for me
and
litterly takes only minutes. Only gotcha is you have to have the flash
space I have all 3640 with max flash so no problem. I used to run off
from
a tftp server and that works well also but is more time consuming.
hth
On Fri, 28 Dec 2007, Wilson, Ryan # Atlanta wrote:
> I was wondering if someone could lead me in the right direction. I
have
> a LAB and I would like the ability to save and load my config files
> dynamically. I have seen this done in class room environments, but I'm
> not how. Does anyone know of a solution?
>
>
>
> Ryan
>
>
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