[rancid] CVS Checkins for every change

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At my last job, we had a tool that recorded a diff for EVERY change made to
a router. The way this was done was a snmp config trap was sent to a trap
handler which triggered the tool to log in and collect the config.

I'm relatively new to Rancid, and I've got it installed and working, but its
run on a cron job.

I'm using Juniper routers, which I have the option of scp'ing the config
every time there is a change.

So, as far as i can tell, I have the option of using a trap handler, or
something else that detects the newly copied (via SCP) file.

At first, I was interested in doing the SCP method, but I realize now that
may be difficult. If I set up a trap handler to run rancid when a config
trap comes in, this should work. Instead of running rancid on the many many
hosts I have, I'd prefer to run it just on one host. Any idea how how I can
run rancid on a single host?

[alex]

Any idea how how I can run rancid on a single host?

rancid-run -r hostname

alexd

[Jethro R Binks]

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At first, I was interested in doing the SCP method, but I realize now
that may be difficult. If I set up a trap handler to run rancid when a
config trap comes in, this should work. Instead of running rancid on
the many many hosts I have, I'd prefer to run it just on one host. Any
idea how how I can run rancid on a single host?

Read about rancid-run.

Jethro.

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Jethro R Binks
Computing Officer, IT Services, University Of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK