Tool to compare several router configurations

[ogenstad]

In a lot of situations you have several routers or switches you want to have configured in a similar way. Say you have 12 routers at different branch offices there will be parts of the configurations you want all those routers to share.

I had been looking for a tool which could do this for me but could only find programs which compared two files to each other. I needed a tool which could compare several configurations against each other.

I ended up creating a script to compare network device configurations.

Hopefully it will be useful to you.

[Marvin Rhoads]

It looks like a nice low-cost / no-cost option for folks who don't have one of the more advanced tools like Cisco Prime LMS or SolarWinds NCM.

Those products allow you to create policies for your configurations and check for out-of-compliance configs and - if you like - remediate.