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RANCID is Really Awesome New Cisco Config Differ. AS its name implies, RANCID monitors network device configuration, including software and hardware and uses CVS (Concurrent Version System) or Subversion to maintain history of changes. RANCID is simple and is easy to use. The same very functionality of RANCID can be used as a backup system for Network device config backup system or even a config change alert system as it can email changes from previous saved configurations. All this RANCID does by logging on to a network device using Telnet or SSH and runs various show commands to grab config changes (hardware & Software), sendRead More →

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Ziptie is an Opensource Network Inventory and Configuration Management framework that can discover and manage network devices such as Routers,Switches and Firewalls. Ziptie out of the box support network devices from multiple major vendors. Ziptie is java based and is built on Eclipse framework. Ziptie can run on many Operating System platforms including Windows, Ubuntu, Fedora,Redhat, Madnriva amd most other Linux Distributions.Read More →