[rancid] Re: post-install, now what?

[john heasley]

Thu, May 25, 2006 at 11:59:19AM -0400, Ed Ravin:
> On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 11:45:09AM -0400, jim bartus wrote:
> >    I've gotten a trial install of rancid going on my network now checking
> >    about 20 devices (all cisco, switches, routers, and two pixes).  My
> >    question is... now what?
> >    For instance, in my old setup (pancho/snmp/tftp based) I had a copy of
> >    running config sitting in a tftp root, which made it easy to "copy
> >    tftp run" from a device to restore a config.  How do you guys address
> >    this in rancid?
> 
> We don't.  RANCID post-processes the config in various ways that improve
> change reporting but lose the original config.  For starters, by default
> all passwords get removed from the config so that they don't accidently
> get emailed out, but there are more subtle transformations: sequence numbers
> get removed, some things get sorted, etc.

What is lost?