Managing IOS Configuration Snippets
Dale W. Carder
dwcarder at wisc.edu
Sat Mar 1 02:35:21 UTC 2014
Thus spake Keegan Holley (no.spam at comcast.net) on Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 09:49:19AM -0500:
> I wasn’t saying just fix it. I was saying that router configs don’t lend well to versioning.
Um, what?
$> rlog r-cssc-b280c-1-core.conf | grep 'total revision'
total revisions: 2009; selected revisions: 2009
> When it’s a router config chances are someone fat-fingered something. Most of the time the best thing to do is to fix or at least alert on the error, not to record it as a valid config version.
We have our operators manually check in revisions (think in rcs terms:
co -l router, go do work, verify it, ci -u router) rather than
unsolicited / cron-triggered checkins. Then the check-in message
contains the operator's description text of the change and often a
ticket number. So there slightly fewer fat-finger configs checked in.
Dale
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