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RANCID VS MOC

Compare RANCID VS MOC and see what are their differences

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RANCID - Really Awesome New Cisco confIg Differ.

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MOC (music on console) is a console audio player for LINUX/UNIX designed to be powerful and easy to...
  • RANCID Landing page
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    2019-04-08
  • MOC Landing page
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    2019-06-12

RANCID videos

Puppet Perspectives - Rancid "Troublemaker" Album Review (feat. Dan)

More videos:

  • Review - Rancid Life Won't Wait Album Review
  • Review - Review: Rancid “Trouble Maker”

MOC videos

GTA ONLINE: SHOULD YOU BUY THE MOC??? (Mobile Operations Center)

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to RANCID and MOC)
Network Automation
100 100%
0% 0
Audio Player
0 0%
100% 100
Configuration Auditing
100 100%
0% 0
Media Player
0 0%
100% 100

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Social recommendations and mentions

MOC 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.

RANCID mentions (9)

  • Cisco switch backup/restore?
    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
  • Version control for network configs
    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: almost 2 years ago
  • Management Software for Cisco Devices?
    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: almost 2 years ago
  • What all are you doing with Ansible?
    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
  • Starting with python at 30
    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: about 2 years ago
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MOC mentions (9)

  • Ask HN: Interesting TUIs (text user interfaces), maybe forgotten ones?
    On that note, moc (http://moc.daper.net/) is also pretty nice. - Source: Hacker News / 6 days ago
  • Any music player that uses the terminal and can show lyrics
    Music On Console has lyrics plugin, but I've never tried it. Source: 11 months ago
  • headless music player project?
    I really quite like MOC's terminal UI for playing music files, and I don't see why it shouldn't work with a network drive too (so long as the network drive is mounted in a "normal" way). Source: over 1 year ago
  • headless music player project?
    I have a pi connected to a hard drive and a pair of speakers (via 3.5mm). I then use MOC to play music via ssh (and I use juiceSSH on my phone if I want to control it from there). Source: over 1 year ago
  • Music / Radio / Podcasts
    I use moc (music on command line) for music: Http://moc.daper.net/ And mpv for internet radio streams. Source: about 2 years ago
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What are some alternatives?

When comparing RANCID and MOC, you can also consider the following products

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.

C* Music Player - cmus is a small, fast and powerful console music player for Linux and *BSD.

Oxidized - configuration backup software (IOS, JunOS) - silly attempt at rancid

Roon (Music Player) - Roon is a music playing application for audiophiles

GenieACS - A fast and lightweight TR-069 Auto Configuration Server (ACS)

musikCube - A fully functional terminal-based music player