Thursday, January 10, 2019

Automating Switch/Router Configuration backups at an MSP. Rancid??

We need a good way to automatically back up switch configurations, but we're an MSP with a lot of small/medium size clients. Some Cisco, Dell N-series and PowerConnect, HP models. We've tried auvik for a while and it works for the most part, but I don't trust it.

Is something like Rancid or Oxydized feasible in an MSP environment? Is it possible to set it up at one of our own servers (or in the cloud) and then pull the switch configs from all of our client sites over the internet (assuming we have all the firewall rules in place)? I don't think it's doable for us to set up something like Rancid at all of our clients. Some of them only have 1 or 2 switches and 1 server.



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