[rancid] archive cisco command and rancid

[alligator94]

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.

I have no access right now to the rancid config, but several clogin run in //.

 

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.

 

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.

 

Regards

Gilles

 

 

 

From: Heasley [mailto:heas at shrubbery.net] 
Sent: lundi 23 mars 2015 17:16
To: alligator94
Cc: <rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net>
Subject: Re: [rancid] archive cisco command and rancid

 

Am 23.03.2015 um 08:47 schrieb alligator94 < <mailto:alligator94 at laposte.net> alligator94 at laposte.net>:

 

Hi,

We use rancid for years now. We manage too much cisco devices, so rancid runs daily during almost 15 hours. 

 

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. 





As, most part of the time, the configurations have not changed, I would like to use the cisco archive command to ftp the configuration when it is saved in the cisco device. So we could run rancid only once a week .

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?

Thanks

Gilles 

 

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