RANCID (Really Awesome New Cisco confIg Differ) is a network management application released under a BSD-style license. ^[1] RANCID uses Expect to connect to the routers, send some commands and put the results in files.

Software which utilises RANCID-collected configs

• LibreNMS
• Observium
• OpenNMS

See also

• Network management system (NMS)
• Console Server
• Router
• Switch

References

• Shrubbery Networks, Inc. RANCID

External links

• Website of RANCID: RANCID - Really Awesome New Cisco confIg Differ
• Joe Abley and Stephen Stuart: Internet Software Consortium
• Peter Harrison: Network Device Backups with Rancid at linuxhomenetworking.com