NCCM

RouterOS The Dude
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Hi All,

Long time, no post.

Been busy building networks. Been having a little search around Network Change Control in the forum and I didn’t find much…

This may be a general topic question, but I love the dude and I wonder if anyone has worked on NCCM via the Dude rather than other tools.

I’ve setup some scripts to duck in and grab a config using plink.exe which is ok, but manual. But I wonder what you other network peeps are doing?

I’ve been looking at
RANCID
rConfig
Oxidized
Network Line Dancer (is the shiz! but is not cost effective and again, external to the dude)

You know, they’re good tools in their own right, but it just means another place to store stuff.

So is anyone using the dude as their backup config drive, if so, how?
If not, why not, what were the limitations you found?
Is anyone actively developing something useful?

I guess before I go and burn up more time beyond plink grabbing a config and stuffing it into a directory in a random state (on manual request), be good to see what the rest of you are up to!?

I’ve also been using the ftp and a schedule to get configs out on my primaries, but there is no real validation or assurance that configs are working, I want to automate the hell out of it and know when it doesn’t work, also having the ability to diff and record who changed what when would be good.

We’ve got 5,000 devices or there abouts in the dude, 600 or so Mikrotiks and lots of Ubiquiti AP’s. not so worried about the dumb ap’s (but would be nice) just core routers and site routers so 600 devices. Had a look at milliscript for looking at configs, cool tool, but not developed..

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chimaster,

I don’t know how Dude can be used for this. If you have experience, may I ask you to share it?

On the forum is described solution like you currently use with config storing on the CVS - Subversion. In Subversion you can see all diffs of exported configs and also get diff of them on the email.

When Mikrotik team will be add something like Cisco have:

! Last configuration change at 19:08:40 CDT Mon Oct 12 2009 by cworks

This solution will more useful.

Thank you!

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Hi,
Maybe https://unimus.net/ will do the job

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Unimus looks like a good tool, some interesting Mum videos also from the software author regarding NetXMS integration, the pricing isn’t too bad either, but the goal is not to add yet another tool for which to store the config as we primarily use the Dude.

We were about to move to NetXMS but our faith was restored in MT with Dude development being re-engaged all systems go. I’d like to see the features for Dude develop a bit faster, as would most of us, but for now it does so much that moving is a big call and we’d rather work towards NCCM integration or setup some petitions and bug the developers until NCCM / backup / user groups / google maps integration takes hold!

We are going to keep an eye on the API development for the Dude and look at ways to utilise this.