We currently have ansible, solarwinds and librenms in our environment but ran into an issue recently where a config setting was lost. I know ansible can check these things but then I’ll have to configure email and stuff I guess to send alerts? What solution are you using?

  • ZeusbottomEnglish
    3•1 year ago

    Rancid for capturing configs, with some custom Python for grabbing changes as they happen and announcing via Slack.

    • SolidGrueEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      Why not track changes configs (derp) in a git repo and post git diff after each change?

      • ZeusbottomEnglish
        2•1 year ago

        That’s how it works, except we use the Rancid default of CVS instead of git. Rancid handles pulling the configs and puts them into a CVS repo, then the diffs are sent to the channel.

        • SolidGrueEnglish
          1•1 year ago

          Ah! Last I looked at Rancid it was backups with optional $REPO. TIL