RANCID monitors a router’s (or more generally a device’s) configuration, including software and hardware (cards, serial numbers, etc) and uses CVS (Concurrent Version System), Subversion or Git to maintain history of changes.
Rancid currently supports Allied Telesis switches running AW+, Cisco routers, Juniper routers, Catalyst switches, Foundry switches (now Brocade), Redback NASs, ADC EZT3 muxes, MRTd (and thus likely IRRd), Alteon switches, and HP Procurve switches and a host of others.
RANCID is free and open source software.
RANCID performs this activity with the following process:
- login to each device in the router table (router.db),
- run various commands to get the information that will be saved,
- cook the output; re-format, remove oscillating or incrementing data,
- email any differences (sample) from the previous collection to a mail list,
- and finally commit those changes to the revision control system.
Website: shrubbery.net/rancid
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Henry Kilmer, John Heasley
License: BSD-style license
Related Software
| Network Configuration Management Tools | |
|---|---|
| NetBox | Solution for modeling and documenting modern networks |
| Oxidized | Network device configuration backup tool |
| NetworkManager | Makes networking configuration and setup painless and automatic |
| phpIPAM | Web IP address management application |
| NOC | OSS system for ISP, service, content providers and enterprises |
| RANCID | Really Awesome New Cisco confIg Differ |
| GestióIP | Automated web based IPv4/IPv6 address management |
| OpenWISP | Modular and programmable network management system |
| Nautobot | Flexible source of truth for networking |
| eNMS | Enterprise Network Management System |
| Trigger | Robust network automation toolkit written in Python |
| rConfig | Advanced, modern and easy to use configuration management tool |
| Netshot | Automates configuration compliance, backups and change tracking |
Read our verdict in the software roundup.
 Explore our carefully curated directory of recommended free and open source software, covering every major software category.The directory forms part of our extensive collection of articles for Linux enthusiasts. It includes hundreds of detailed reviews, together with free and open source alternatives to proprietary software from companies such as Google, Microsoft, Apple, Adobe, IBM, Cisco, Oracle, and Autodesk. LinuxLinks also covers interesting projects worth exploring, Linux-compatible hardware, free programming books and tutorials, and much more. Know a useful free and open source Linux application that we haven’t covered? Tell us about it using our submission form. |
Please read our Comment Policy before commenting.