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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Network Configuration Management Practices
There has been some public available software for backing up Cisco router configuration. The backup is not in CVS but in plain file. Joe --- Alexei Roudnev <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hmm, there are many approaches, starting with _what > is primary_ (in Moscow's > ISP files was primary, in enterprise here configs > are primary). > > In my case, I use some hard rules: > - no matter what is primary, configurations should > be stored into CVS or > simular system, and made available (for network > engineers) on the internal > web (with restricted access); > - system should collect all changes automatically > (or update configs from > files automatically), make diffs and send change > reports. > - In any case, I must be able to see real > configuration and see all changes, > applying for last few weeks, without telnetting to > the box. > > Without such things, I am blind ( I feel myself > blind, when I come to the > new network, and they have not such things in their > system, making changes > _on live servers_ and making 'telnet' to evaluate > configuration). > > Few tools (opensource and commercial) allows to > automate this job. > > One more thing. We tried to review _proposed > changes_ and _changed applied_. > Practice showed, that it is impossible to see errors > in proposed updates, > even if 3 - 4 engineers review it (not design flaws, > but syntac and > semantics errors), so we did not got many use from > pre-change reviews > (except design ones). But we got extremely high > profit from post-change > reviews (verifying, what really changed on the > router / firewall after > maintanance window) - it allows to see some unwanted > changes and avoid few > possible service disruptions. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Scott Weeks" <[email protected]> > To: "Carl W.Kalbfleisch" <[email protected]> > Cc: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 3:08 PM > Subject: Re: Network Configuration Management > Practices > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Carl W.Kalbfleisch wrote: > > > > : I am doing some independent research on Network > Configuration > > : Management Practices. I am trying to get > information from service > > : providers and enterprises on how they handle > this function. I have the > > : following specific questions: > > : > > : 1) What configuration issues most affect the > performance and > > : reliability of your network? > > > > > > Fingers... >;-) > > > > scott > > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Download the latest ringtones, games, and more! http://sg.mobile.yahoo.com
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