Logging on to devices is easy, config backups are a life saver and on Linux is rock solid reliability.I originally had RANCID running on an Ubuntu server, but it would never backup HP switch configs via SSH, only telnet. You can install it on CentOS 6.4 by running:On Ubuntu 12.04 LTS or Debian 7.4 you use apt to install:You will note if you install the Debian or Ubuntu packages you will be presented with an informational text which says it is an early release of the package. Alternatively you can use root@’%’ to allow access from anywhere.Now that we’ve got the basics of setting up the OS and the underlying applications out of the way let’s get to the business of setting up rConfig for the first time. I work as a Senior Cloud Architect at.This site was created for the purpose of being a locker full of all the handy things I’ve learned over the years, know I’m going to need again and know I’ll forget. Another option is to have separate schedules for each group. I have previously done a post on RANCID setup on Ubuntu 10.04 which was an older version of RANCID in the Ubuntu repositories.One major change in version 3.x is IPv6 support which has one gotcha. For example hlogin is for HP devices and flogin is for Foundry.You should now be logged into the switch without and can type exit to return to the server.In order for RANCID to keep track of changes you have to schedule a cronjob with will run as the rancid user.This will schedule a run each hour and notify the members of the respective group each time any of the devices change.

If you are deploying different configs to your devices, for example access-lists might differ for each router. Connect via SSH; 2. First we need to edit the sudoers file to allow the apache account access to various applications. Now we are ready to create RANCID groups. So the routers group will be located in the /var/lib/rancid/routers directory on Debian or Ubuntu, and in the /var/rancid/routers directory if you are using CentOS.The router.db file is specific for each group and located in the group directory. You might have some luck running it through Cygwin. Adding user rancid to group root Done. Add MariaDB database repo for install latest version, you need to mariadb.repo following bellow: I recently decided it was time for my OpenNMS/RANCID server to be rebuilt, moving OpenNMS up to a CentOS 7 installation and in doing so thought it was time to start looking around for an network device configuration management alternative. In the headquarter there is one router, one distributions switch, three access switches and six stand-alone access-points. rb_libtorrent-devel-1.0.9-2.el7.x86_64.rpm,rb_libtorrent-examples-1.0.9-2.el7.x86_64.rpm,rb_libtorrent-python2-1.0.9-2.el7.x86_64.rpm,https://download-ib01.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/Packages/r/rancid-3.12-1.el7.x86_64.rpm,https://download-ib01.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/SRPMS/Packages/r/rancid-3.12-1.el7.src.rpm,/usr/share/doc/rancid-3.12/cloginrc.sample,/usr/share/man/man5/rancid.types.base.5.gz,/usr/share/man/man5/rancid.types.conf.5.gz,/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/rancid/acos.pm,/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/rancid/aeos.pm,/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/rancid/arbor.pm,/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/rancid/arcos.pm,/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/rancid/bigip.pm,/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/rancid/ciscowlc.pm,/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/rancid/dell.pm,/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/rancid/dnos10.pm,/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/rancid/dnos9.pm,/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/rancid/edgemax.pm,/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/rancid/edgerouter.pm,/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/rancid/exos.pm,/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/rancid/fortigate.pm,/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/rancid/foundry.pm,/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/rancid/fss2.pm,/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/rancid/fxos.pm,/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/rancid/ios.pm,/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/rancid/iossb.pm,/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/rancid/iosshtech.pm,/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/rancid/iosxr.pm,/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/rancid/junos.pm,/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/rancid/mrv.pm,/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/rancid/nxos.pm,/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/rancid/panos.pm,/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/rancid/rancid.pm,/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/rancid/rbt.pm,/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/rancid/smc.pm,/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/rancid/sros.pm,/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/rancid/vrp.pm,/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/rancid/wavesvros.pm,A passive web application security assessment tool,RSS Aggregator Without Delusions of Grandeur,A C++ BitTorrent library aiming to be the best alternative,Re-implementation for Unix of the Plan 9 shell.