[rancid] comparing device running config against startup config

[Ian Stong]

Quite true. Sometimes we want temporary changes to be in the running
config but not the startup config in case we need to back it out so
would rather have a way where rancid checks the running versus startup
and alerts for any changes (versus sending a periodic wr mem).


Thanks,

Ian

-----Original Message-----
From: john heasley [mailto:heas at shrubbery.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 10:30 AM
To: Ian Stong
Cc: rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
Subject: Re: [rancid] comparing device running config against startup
config

Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 10:10:06AM -0400, Ian Stong:
> We are using rancid to grab the running config and look for 
> differences over the previous running config. That works great and as 
> advertised. I was wondering what others are doing to catch the 
> occasional issue where someone makes a change to the running config 
> but for whatever reason it doesn't get saved and the device crashes - 
> hence loosing that part of the config.
> 
> What suggestions do you have for ensuring the running config matches 
> the startup config?

you could use a cron job to write it periodically - clogin -c 'wr mem'
foo