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RANCID (Really Awesome New Cisco config Differ) is a configuration management tool that automates the retrieval and archiving of network equipment configurations. It serves as a backup, audit, and blame allocation tool, utilizing Version Control Systems like CVS and SVN to track changes. RANCID can also be used for automated checks, generating DNS files, and visualizing network topology.

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Rancid Cvsweb

RANCID (Really Awesome New Cisco config Differ) is a configuration management tool that automates the retrieval and archiving of network equipment configurations. It serves as a backup, audit, and blame allocation tool, utilizing Version Control Systems like CVS and SVN to track changes. RANCID can also be used for automated checks, generating DNS files, and visualizing network topology.

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Network Management &

Monitoring

Configuration Management RANCID

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What is RANCID?

The ”Really Awesome New Cisco config Differ”


– Really!

A configuration management tool:


• Keeps track of changes in the configs of your
network equipment (Cisco, HP, Juniper, Foundry,
etc.)
• Works on routers and switches
What is RANCID
RANCID??

Automates retrieval of the configurations and


archives them
Functions as:
• Backup tool - ”woops, my router burned”
• Audit tool - ”how did this error get in?”
• Blame allocation :) - ”who did it?”
The data is stored in a VCS (Version Control
System) – supported are:
• CVS (Concurrent Versions Systems)
• SVN (SubVersioN)
How does it work
work??

Run (manually or automated)


Lookup list of groups
For each device in each list of groups
• Connect to the equipment (telnet, ssh, …)
• Run ”show” commands – config, inventory, ...
• Collect, filter/format data
• Retrieve the resulting config files
• CVS check-in the changes
• Generate a diff from the previous version
• E-mail the diff to a mail address (individual or group)
What to use it for
for?

• Track changes in the equipment configuration


• Track changes in the hardware (S/N, modules)
• Track version changes in the OS (IOS, CatOS
versions)
• Find out what your colleagues have done
without telling you!
• Recover from accidental configuration errors
(anyone have stories?)
Post processing

• Run traditional filtering commands on your


configs (grep, sed, for information)
• Re-use the automated login tools to build your
own batch tools or do interactive login
• On large configurations, you can parallelize
operations
Other applications

• Automated checks (verify configs for strange/


inconsistent setup)
• Generate DNS file from equipment list
• Use IP address adjacency to produce a graph of
your network
References

• RANCID Project Home Page


http://www.shrubbery.net/rancid/
• Subversion (SVN) Home Page
http://subversion.apache.org/
• Good, Short RANCID Presentation
http://www.shrubbery.net/rancid/NANOG29/
• RANCID HowTo’s
1. http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/wiki/index.php/
Quick_HOWTO_:_Ch1_:_Network_Backups_With_Rancid
2. http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Rancid
3. http://homepage.mac.com/duling/halfdozen/RANCID-
Howto.html

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