Macro Deck might be a bit more popular than RANCID. We know about 9 links to it since March 2021 and only 9 links to RANCID. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
A decade ago I worked for a shop that needed to routinely back up 100+ cisco switches and routers and refused to pay for solarwinds. I setup a light weight freebsd vm to run this open source software: https://shrubbery.net/rancid/ (Rancid: Really Awesome New Cisco config Differ) and set it to scrape all the equipment every 12 errors. Source: over 1 year ago
Anyways Rancid does support cvs, svn, and git. Though I have only used it with cvs. Basically what it does, is checks out the configuration, downloads the configuration with other information about the state of the device, commits the configurations(which only changed ones will be in the latest check-ins, and then it can send an email of the changes. Source: about 2 years ago
RANCID - Really Awesome New Cisco confIg Differ monitors a router's (or more generally a device's) configuration, including software and hardware (cards, serial numbers, etc) and uses CVS (Concurrent Version System), Subversion or Git to maintain history of changes. Source: about 2 years ago
If you want to use this as an opportunity to learn Ansible, or you don't want to add another tool to the stack, this is a fine use case. Otherwise, I would consider using either RANCID or Oxidized for configuration backup. Source: about 2 years ago
Before I knew about RANCiD (https://shrubbery.net/rancid), I wrote my own Perl application to telnet into a Foundry Networks switch and TFTP its configuration to my computer so I could back it up. At a future employer, I rewrote another coworkers Perl application that collected SNMP values from devices and did stuff with it (forget what all I did then). Source: over 2 years ago
I've looked at OBS Remote and macrodeck.org, deckboard.app, but these are all for changing scenes on the same device. I'd like something similar to a Crestron switch panel, but on my Surface Pro 4 instead. Source: about 1 year ago
Also, if you do not have an Elgato Stream Deck, it has way more compatibility with Deckboard and MacroDeck (apps that let you use your phone as a Stream Deck). Source: about 1 year ago
You can use MacroDeck for that. Works over the network, you'd open it in the browser of your Laptop. Cheers! :). Source: about 1 year ago
If you'r ein the market for something fully free - as in: No cost and open source - I can also recommend https://macrodeck.org/. Source: about 1 year ago
I know there are some alternative solutions that works with smartphones such as touch-portal and macrodeck but they have some things that I don't like. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago
Unimus - Unimus is a Network Automation and Configuration management (NCM) solution designed for fast deployment network-wide and ease of use. Unimus does not require learning any abstraction or templating languages, and does not require any coding skills.
TouchPortal - Touch Portal is a companion app to control a PC or a Mac by using a deck of buttons to improve the workflow & productivity of game streamers, content creators and professionals.
Oxidized - configuration backup software (IOS, JunOS) - silly attempt at rancid
Deckboard - Deckboard helps you create macros for Windows PC and launch them on your phone.
GenieACS - A fast and lightweight TR-069 Auto Configuration Server (ACS)
Elgato Stream Deck Mobile - Stream Deck Mobile brings professional stream control, powerful integrations, and the Stream Deck workflow to your iPhone or Android. That’s 15 fully customizable buttons poised to launch unlimited actions. All at your fingertips – and wireless.