RANCID stands for really awesome new cisco configuration differ[1]and polls Cisco devices to geta copy of the configuration and an inventory of the hardware and commitsthe details to a version control system such a CVS or SVN. The versioncontrol is used to maintain a history of the changes, and any changes tothe configuration are reported. There are a number of guides availablefor installing RANCID[2,4,5], but I’ve documented thesteps I took here for my reference.
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