jamesfed Posted November 3, 2015 Posted November 3, 2015 Just published and hopefully this will help! Tested and works ok on HPs, would be intrested to hear from anyone who makes it work with Cisco as well. Automated backup for your network switches with WinSCP and PowerShell | my world of IT
IanT Posted November 3, 2015 Posted November 3, 2015 Cisco can already backup configs: Back up and Restore Configuration Files - Cisco But I'll look at the HP one 1
jamesfed Posted November 3, 2015 Author Posted November 3, 2015 HP has pretty much the same - I just don't like the idea of using TFTP anymore though
FN-GM Posted November 3, 2015 Posted November 3, 2015 HP has pretty much the same - I just don't like the idea of using TFTP anymore though You can also copy to FTP, HTTP and HTTPS with Cisco 1
jamesfed Posted November 10, 2015 Author Posted November 10, 2015 Have now taken things one step further with a further script which emails you daily with a list of changes Automated Change Detection and Reporting – Network Switches | my world of IT. Again hopefully this will help!
Geoff Posted November 10, 2015 Posted November 10, 2015 I'm using Oxidized to backup my configs to a git repository. 1
jamesfed Posted November 10, 2015 Author Posted November 10, 2015 I'm using Oxidized to backup my configs to a git repository. Not a Linux bod so couldn't comment So many ways to go about it; PowerShell (on Windows) is the way for me!
jamesfed Posted November 10, 2015 Author Posted November 10, 2015 Does it work with Netgear? Chris I don't see why not - having a casual look at the Netgear CLI it appears they support SSH. Worth turning it on and seeing if you can access it through WinSCP If so and you can find a path to a config file then yep it'll work.
DMcCoy Posted November 10, 2015 Posted November 10, 2015 One thing to remember with the procurves, is that the config file won't contain the passwords, some license keys and some keys for radius (depends on model and version).
Geoff Posted November 10, 2015 Posted November 10, 2015 Yeah, we have a template config with that in our dokuwiki (plus listed seperately in our licensing DB and our Passwords DB).
jamesfed Posted November 10, 2015 Author Posted November 10, 2015 One thing to remember with the procurves, is that the config file won't contain the passwords, some license keys and some keys for radius (depends on model and version). I should be worried if any switch vendor includes such things in plain text. Especially AAA details!
DMcCoy Posted November 10, 2015 Posted November 10, 2015 They aren't in the config file, even encrypted like cisco configs, they are in a file you can't copy from the switch. Just an issue if you template configs because you have to remember to do the initial user creation.
jamesfed Posted November 11, 2015 Author Posted November 11, 2015 You're blog is really cool James! Thanks!
john Posted November 11, 2015 Posted November 11, 2015 We use Rancid here for auto config backups from Switches and Firewalls works very well from our HP and Cisco estate - Shrubbery Networks, Inc. - RANCID Where I used to be with the Juniper estate we had them auto ftp the backups to a share on the SAN which was a great feature as well
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