Basic LMS help, or suggestions for other software

[Chad Peterson]

I'm looking for the appropriate software to help me manage my lab.  I'm a bit new to any network managmenet software.  Right now it contains about 20 different switches and routers.  I have DCNM setup for my SAN and Nexus devices and we have deployed LMS as well.

I have LMS setup to aleart me of any failures or link issues etc...and its working well.

I'm trying to figure out how to get it to backup my device configs and save them out to an FTP server.  Is this something LMS can do?  If not any suggestions on what to use?  I've thought about just writing up some expect scripts to do this...but honestly I don't want to maintain it as new gear comes in quite a bit.

Thanks!

Chad

[Gaganjeet Chug]

Hi Chad,

Welcome to the world of Network Management .

You need not to worry about the configuration backup of devices since LMS do have that feature too. Kindly let me know the version that you running so that I can send you the steps to create a job to backup the configuration of the devices .

Many Thanks,

Gaganjeet

[Chad Peterson]

Hi Gaganjeet,

I'm using LMS 4.0.1

Thanks

Chad

[Gaganjeet Chug · Accepted solution]

HI Chad,

Kindly navigate to Configuration > Configuration Archive > Synchronization and create new job for all the devices that will backup the configuration of the devices.

For more details kindly refer to the User Guide for the Configuration Archive feature of LMS 4.0.1

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/net_mgmt/ciscoworks_lan_management_solution/4.0/user/guide/configuration_management/overview.html

Many Thanks,

Gaganjeet

[Marvin Rhoads]

As Gaganjeet replied, CiscoWorks LMS can do this pretty well for Cisco devices.

If you have a mutli-vendor environment, the open source RANCID tool is very handy for this sort of thing. We use RANCID to pull configuration s of not only Cisco but also Juniper Netscreen, SRX and EX series, Citrix Netscaler, F5Big IP, Extreme switches, etc. Combine it with a viewer interface such as Trac and you have a very slick way to manage multi-vendor configurations.

RANCID: http://www.shrubbery.net/rancid/

Trac: http://trac.edgewall.org/

[Chad Peterson]

Thanks guys.  Got it working overall, but also going to try out RANCID as well.