RANCID Reviews

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1. Marek Albrecht

   | Portal Admin at LARP Slovakia | about 4 years ago
   Convenient and free

   It was easy to get started - I have registered the free plan and created the first tour in approximately 15 minutes. Since then I have been improving on the experience.

   Part of my application is a single-page app. It was quite techy to get this part running. Kudos for the customer support that walked me through!

   🏁 Competitors: WalkMe

   👍 Pros:    Free basic plan|Easy to use|Great customer support

   👎 Cons:    Single page app support
2. Martin Novak

   | Front end manager at Netwits Company | about 4 years ago
   A nice simple tool for user onboarding

   I use Usetiful for various clients' projects that require product tours. Everyone was satisfied so far. Web editor allows me to quickly update the content and browser extension to preview the tours. Reports provide enough detail.

   🏁 Competitors: Appcues

   👍 Pros:    Easy to use|Easy user interface|Preview function|Good price

   👎 Cons:    Nothing, so far

RANCID mentions (9)

• Cisco switch backup/restore?

  A decade ago I worked for a shop that needed to routinely back up 100+ cisco switches and routers and refused to pay for solarwinds. I setup a light weight freebsd vm to run this open source software: https://shrubbery.net/rancid/ (Rancid: Really Awesome New Cisco config Differ) and set it to scrape all the equipment every 12 errors. Source: over 1 year ago

• Version control for network configs

  Anyways Rancid does support cvs, svn, and git. Though I have only used it with cvs. Basically what it does, is checks out the configuration, downloads the configuration with other information about the state of the device, commits the configurations(which only changed ones will be in the latest check-ins, and then it can send an email of the changes. Source: about 2 years ago

• Management Software for Cisco Devices?

  RANCID - Really Awesome New Cisco confIg Differ 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. Source: about 2 years ago

• What all are you doing with Ansible?

  If you want to use this as an opportunity to learn Ansible, or you don't want to add another tool to the stack, this is a fine use case. Otherwise, I would consider using either RANCID or Oxidized for configuration backup. Source: about 2 years ago

• Starting with python at 30

  Before I knew about RANCiD (https://shrubbery.net/rancid), I wrote my own Perl application to telnet into a Foundry Networks switch and TFTP its configuration to my computer so I could back it up. At a future employer, I rewrote another coworkers Perl application that collected SNMP values from devices and did stuff with it (forget what all I did then). Source: over 2 years ago

Usetiful mentions (0)