
Rancid has a couple of areas that need to be edited before we can let it run. This is all open-source so you can create custom scripts or add commands to really make this a personal repository that fits your company.

Rancid supports multiple hardware from Cisco, HP, Dell, Juniper and more. It also keeps track of them by using CVS (Concurrent Version System) for backups, so you can go back and compare versions or revert to a previous configuration. To recap: Rancid is a great tool to help monitor a device configuration for any changes. In this post we now want to actually use Rancid so I’ll walk through on how to setup Rancid to login into network equipment and get configurations.

In my last post I talked about Installing Rancid on Centos 7 so be sure to check that out.
