RANCID (software) explained

RANCID (Really Awesome New Cisco confIg Differ) is a network management application released under a BSD-style license.^[1] RANCID uses Expect to connect to the routers, send some commands and put the results in files.

Software which utilises RANCID-collected configs

• LibreNMS
• Observium
• OpenNMS

See also

• Network management system (NMS)
• Console Server
• Router
• Switch

References

• Shrubbery Networks, Inc. RANCID

External links

• Website of RANCID: - Really Awesome New Cisco confIg Differ
  • Joe Abley and Stephen Stuart: Internet Software Consortium Peter Harrison: Network Device Backups with Rancid at linuxhomenetworking.com

Notes and References

1. http://www.shrubbery.net/rancid/LICENSE.txt