Managing IOS Configuration Snippets

Thu Feb 27 12:44:35 UTC 2014

Wow, this sounds fantastic! Have any code you can share?

Cheers,
Harry

On Feb 27, 2014 6:52 AM, Andrew Latham <lathama at gmail.com> wrote:
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> For a large install I set up a solution that might help. I utilized a 
> Mediawiki install and its API to create, update and pull the 
> configuration on many IOS devices. A wiki page for the host name was 
> dynamically created and the configuration was placed there daily or 
> hourly. This allowed support to review the configuration and advise 
> customers quicker. Additional hacks for updating the devices via the 
> wiki were used. The goal was transparency for the support team and the 
> side effect was wiki page history showing what day and what lines 
> changed.  As mentioned the answer to your question would likely make a 
> good article. 
>
> On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 3:22 PM, Ryan Shea <ryanshea at google.com> wrote: 
> > Howdy network operator cognoscenti, 
> > 
> > I'd love to hear your creative and workable solutions for a way to track 
> > in-line the configuration revisions you have on your cisco-like devices. 
> > Let me clearify/frame: 
> > 
> > You have a set of tested/approved configurations for your routers which use 
> > IOS style configuration. These configurations of course are always refined 
> > and updated. You break these pieces of configuration into logical sections, 
> > for example a configuration file for NTP configuration, a file for control 
> > plane filter and store these in some revision control system. Put aside for 
> > the moment whether this is a reasonable way to comprehend deployed 
> > configurations. What methods do some of you use to know which version of a 
> > configuration you have deployed to a given router for auditing and update 
> > purposes? Remarks are a convenient way to do this for ACLs - but I don't 
> > have similar mechanics for top level configurations. About a decade ago I 
> > thought I'd be super clever and encode versioning information into the snmp 
> > location - but that is just awful and there is a much better way everyone 
> > is using, right? Flexible commenting on other vendors/platforms make this a 
> > bit easier. 
> > 
> > Assume that this version encoding perfectly captures what is on the router 
> > and that no person is monkeying with the config... version 77 of the 
> > control plane filter is the same everywhere. 
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