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If you anticipate doing a lot of this kind of monitoring in the future you may want to take a look at the "expect" programming language http://expect.nist.gov/ , which has very simple "send"/"expect" constructs. E.g. send "show acl 101/r" expect "access-list .." etc. Perl also allows similar although is probably not quite as easy to pick up if you've never done this kind of thing before. Essentially you'd write a quick script to telnet or ssh to the router "send" your commands, expect a result and do something based on that result. As I said, its worth the time investment and you'll find once you get the script done you can just reuse it for many other tasks. The TACACS+ suggestion is also good.. Not only would it allow you to limit who (authentication) can do what (authorization).. The accounting features would also provide a log entry if an authorized user did do a no access-list 101.. You could then write a shell script to parse the accounting log. Cheers, Glynn -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jim McBurnett Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 5:20 PM To: Paul Ryan; [email protected] Subject: RE: ACL Monitoring Paul, I think a better solution maybe to implement TACACS+ and resrict rights on who can do that.. Sounds like you don't trust someone..... I'd try that first... Later, Jim -----Original Message----- From: Paul Ryan [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 5:15 PM To: [email protected] Subject: ACL Monitoring Importance: High All - I am looking for a solution (open source, scripts) to allow me to monitor ACL's on Cisco routers. So if for example a line dissapears from an ACL or the entire ACL is removed - I am alerted via pager/e-mail etc. regards, Paul R
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