We currently have ansible, solarwinds and librenms in our environment but ran into an issue recently where a config setting was lost. I know ansible can check these things but then I’ll have to configure email and stuff I guess to send alerts? What solution are you using?

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We’ve been using CheckMK for years, even before it was conveniently packaged as OMD, and I would definitely recommend it. We use SaltStack and have a hook on VM deploys/destroys where it adds/removes from monitoring automatically, works great for us.

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Rancid for capturing configs, with some custom Python for grabbing changes as they happen and announcing via Slack.

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Why not track changes in a git repo and post git diff after each change?

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That’s how it works, except we use the Rancid default of CVS instead of git. Rancid handles pulling the configs and puts them into a CVS repo, then the diffs are sent to the channel.

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Ah! Last I looked at Rancid it was backups with optional $REPO. TIL

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If you have LibreNMS, why not run the Oxidizer plugin to pull the units config?

https://docs.librenms.org/Extensions/Oxidized/

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Because I didn’t know about it… Thank you!

Is this a plugin or a hook into yet another server that runs oxidized?

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It’s up to you where to run it. We ran it on the same server as our main LibreNMS poller and didn’t have any issues getting the config.

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Thanks I just got it running. Now to figure out what to do about credentials 😞. Our enable creds are different depending on region.

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