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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=FR link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>We use rancid to backup daily around 3700 cisco devices (routers and switches + some WAP and FW) all around the world and let’s say that 10 percent randomly may not be reachable because they are switched off at night or due to any other connectivity issue. As we have the standard rancid configuration, I think that there are 3 retries, so it may take time.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>I have no access right now to the rancid config, but several clogin run in //.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>We have a lot of different models of cisco devices, connected through a stable and not overloaded mpls network or using ipsec tunnels. Some use satellite connectivity in the far east countries.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>Rancid runs on a separate linux system, so it is not disturbing while rancid run is below 24hours . But I was wondering if, as we don’t change the devices configuration very often, once a week would be enough if we use the “archive “ cisco command to store the updated config. Today we run rancid on a daily basis not to miss any change in the devices configurations.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>Regards<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>Gilles<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:FR'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:FR'> Heasley [mailto:heas@shrubbery.net] <br><b>Sent:</b> lundi 23 mars 2015 17:16<br><b>To:</b> alligator94<br><b>Cc:</b> <rancid-discuss@shrubbery.net><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [rancid] archive cisco command and rancid<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Am 23.03.2015 um 08:47 schrieb alligator94 <</span><a href="mailto:alligator94@laposte.net"><span lang=EN-US>alligator94@laposte.net</span></a><span lang=EN-US>>:</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:FR'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>We use rancid for years now. We manage too much cisco devices, so rancid runs daily during almost 15 hours. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:FR'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:FR'>Ignoring the question below for now. 15hours seems outrageous, so tell us more about your environment please. How many devices, models, connectivity, rancid host, rancid.conf PAR count, etc. i collect about 450 devices each hour without issue. <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:FR'><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>As, most part of the time, the configurations have not changed, I would like to use the cisco <b>archive</b> command to ftp the configuration when it is saved in the cisco device. So we could run rancid only once a week .<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Is there a way to process the files sent by ftp as input to rancid to have the formatting and the differences processed and stored as with native rancid?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Thanks<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Gilles <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:FR'>_______________________________________________<br>Rancid-discuss mailing list<br></span><a href="mailto:Rancid-discuss@shrubbery.net"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:FR'>Rancid-discuss@shrubbery.net</span></a><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:FR'><br></span><a href="http://www.shrubbery.net/mailman/listinfo/rancid-discuss"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:FR'>http://www.shrubbery.net/mailman/listinfo/rancid-discuss</span></a><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:FR'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></blockquote></div></div></body></html>