[Sunhelp] Automating Data Collection

[Bill Bradford]

On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 10:05:18AM -0400, Nabeel Ahmed wrote:
> Hi,
> I am trying to capture the setup on my Cisco switches once a week, currently
> its done manually,
> is there anyway to automate the collection of this data automatically,
> basically this is being done to ensure that I have a copy of the last config
> in case something goes bust.

I'd suggest setting up a tftp server, and storing your configs on there - 
that way you've always got the latest config that you've uploaded to
the router.

> Also, another thing I want to automate is collection of statistics from the
> HP4000 ProCurve switch. I mean, I would like to have all the data pertaining
> to each port on that switch to be mailed to me once a month or at least
> stored in a file which I can pick up, right now, I log on to the switch and
> manually note down all the data.

Have you looked at MRTG?  www.mrtg.org.

Bill

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