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

So I can use something like tomsguide.com or any website with IT news or information articles as source to cite in the paper? Can I use these only and not scientific research papers? Thank you. Source: about 1 year ago

While researching a comparison between Xfinity Mobile and Verizon I encountered an article on tomsguide.com that said that I can not even access 5G on Verizon at the current plan level... AND... That I am already being deprioritized during busy times. The same article mentioned that Xfinity automatically allows 5G as long as you have the compatible phone.... And for considerably less than Verizon. And in addition... Source: about 1 year ago

Hi, I want to receive e-mails for Tech deals on Tomsguide.com. They only offer subscriptions to their whole website, not specific sections of it. Is it possible for me to get e-mails for the posts in the deals section? If yes, then how? I checked the RSS but I don't understand if I can segregate the deals section from the whole RSS. Source: about 1 year ago

I got this off tomsguide.com. It's technically for last season but I would imagine it's still relevant for this coming season:. Source: almost 2 years ago

I was reading about Plantronics BackBeat GO 600 on tomsguide.com which are the highest rated. Then I found Sennheiser 206 on amazon for $19, but the reviews are pretty bad. Members have recommended some by monoprice, as well. Source: over 2 years ago