[rancid] Re: config repository tools?

[Michael Skinner]

I currently use a homemade perl script to create a HTML representation of
all my NetScreen configs giving a nice overview of the config running on
each device. I run it against any updated files in my /configs after each
rancid-run in crontab.  Combining that with CVSweb gives you a killer
front-end!  http://www.freebsd.org/projects/cvsweb.html

Nipper could be used to create your HTML reports:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/nipper

It passes various types of configs (Cisco IOS, PIX, ASA, FWSM, NMP, CatOS,
NetScreen ScreenOS) into a HTML report with some light "audit/guidance" - I
don't use it myself as I don't find its that great with Netscreen firewalls
yet...but I understand its pretty mature on cisco and the like.

Mike




-----Original Message-----
From: rancid-discuss-bounces at shrubbery.net
[mailto:rancid-discuss-bounces at shrubbery.net]On Behalf Of null yathrib
Sent: 13 June 2007 02:12
To: rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
Subject: [rancid] config repository tools?


Not a Rancid question, but I was wondering if there were any good
tools to use with the repository of offline configs.  Yes, grep + awk
are old staples, but  was wondering if anyone had other suggestions.

There was RAT  (http://unix.freshmeat.net/projects/routeraudittool) to
do some audits via a shell script.

I've looked at Cisco::Reconfig
(http://search.cpan.org/dist/Cisco-Reconfig) to do things like the
below.  Anyone have recipes using it they're interested in sharing?

--snip--
use Cisco::Reconfig;

for (@ARGV) {
    my $config = Cisco::Reconfig::readconfig($_);

    # Get ip helper-addresses since we can't retrieve these all via SNMP
    for my $int ( $config->get( 'interface' )->all ) {
        my @helpers = $int->get('ip helper-address')->all;
        if ( $helpers[0] ) {
            print $int;
            for my $helper ( @helpers ) {
                print $helper;
            }
        }
    }
}
--snip--

Any other suggestions or pointers appreciated.

-- 
yathrib
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