Based on our record, Visual Studio Live Share should be more popular than RANCID. It has been mentiond 22 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.
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: almost 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: almost 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: about 2 years ago
Visual Studio Live Share is an extension for the popular Visual Studio Code IDE that allows developers to bring their peers into their editor. You can send an invite link to let your colleagues write, edit, and debug code as if they were in the same physical location as you. This removes the challenges of working remotely when it comes to pair programming and brainstorming together. - Source: dev.to / 7 months ago
Have you checked out Live Share? It's included in VS and there's an extension for VS Code. Source: 12 months ago
Visual Studio has collaboration tools. Source: about 1 year ago
Pair programming is when two developers work together at one workstation. Not necessarily on the same computer, but they work together on the same programming task. In remote work I love to use Visual Studio Live Share ❤️. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago
But there's also an extension that MS put out called Live Share. They have a version for both VS and VS Code. I've used the VSC one myself, to great effect. Source: 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.
CodeShare.io - Realtime code sharing for developers
Oxidized - configuration backup software (IOS, JunOS) - silly attempt at rancid
CodeTogether - Live share IDEs and coding sessions. See changes in real time.
GenieACS - A fast and lightweight TR-069 Auto Configuration Server (ACS)
Teletype for Atom - Collaborate in real time in Atom