May 5, 2017 | How-To
Oxidized is an open-source project started by Saku Ytti and Samer Abdel-Hafez as an alternative to the very popular RANCID software. A little over a year ago, I created a RANCID server to backup…
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June 25, 2014 | How-To
In a previous article I introduced a project for the configuration backups of F5 devices. It offered an automated, centralized backup service for F5 BigIP devices with a web interface.…
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February 22, 2014 | How-To
As an administrator of network devices, keeping full backups is important for being able to recover from hardware failure. With F5 devices, backups come in the form of UCS files…
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April 30, 2012 | How-To
Recently, I wrote a review of HP’s Intelligent Management Center. One of the things I mentioned having problems with was backing up some Cisco devices via SSH. Out of the…
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Working in an environment where you have few staff resources, especially at remote sites, deploying workgroup switches can be a bit of a pain. Or maybe you just want to…
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