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RANCID VS Sophos UTM

Compare RANCID VS Sophos UTM and see what are their differences

RANCID logo RANCID

RANCID - Really Awesome New Cisco confIg Differ.

Sophos UTM logo Sophos UTM

Sophos UTM integrates complete security software within a single appliance.
  • RANCID Landing page
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    2019-04-08
  • Sophos UTM Landing page
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    2018-09-29

RANCID videos

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

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  • Review - Rancid Life Won't Wait Album Review
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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to RANCID and Sophos UTM)
Network Automation
100 100%
0% 0
Monitoring Tools
0 0%
100% 100
Configuration Auditing
100 100%
0% 0
Cyber Security
0 0%
100% 100

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Sophos UTM Reviews

11 Best pfsense Alternatives To Secure Your Network
Sophos UTM supplied all of the essential functions that were required. For any installer, it is easy to use and operate.
10 Best pfSense Alternatives and Similar Firewalls
Sophos UTM provided all of the necessary fundamental functions. It is simple to use and administer for any integrator.

Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, RANCID seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 9 times since March 2021. 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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Sophos UTM mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of Sophos UTM yet. Tracking of Sophos UTM recommendations started around Mar 2021.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing RANCID and Sophos UTM, 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.

Symantec Email Security.cloud - Symantec Email Security.cloud provides always-on, inbound and outbound email security against malware, targeted attacks, and advanced threats

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

pfSense - pfSense is a free and open source firewall and router that also features unified threat management, load balancing, multi WAN, and more

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

SonicWall - SonicWall security solutions protects your network, systems, users and data from cyber threats.