GERTY
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a proper way of doing things that RANCID does... and much more
Project status: preparing for a release.
Originally GERTY was a robot character in the film "Moon" (2009) by
Duncan Jones, with Kevin Spacey's voice.
Gerty is the automation tool for network operation tasks, like:
* Collecting status and configuration data
* Executing remote commands
* Parallel, massive execution
Various management access interfaces are available:
* Telnet/SSH command line
* SNMP
* NETCONF
* TL/1
Usage examples
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* Device configuration backup
* VPLS MAC counts on Juniper MX platform: per-instance and per-VLAN
counts for every routing instance, stored in SQL DB
* 15-minute HDSL line quality statistics (ES, SES, CRCA, LOSWS, UAS)
collected every few hours and stored in SQL DB
* Chassis hardware types, serial numbers, IOS versions for Cisco
devices, stored in SQL, with change history
* Port status, CDP neighbours, UDLD status for Cisco devices, stored in
SQL, with change history
Vendor-specific plugins
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The core Gerty package contains only vendor-independent features. All
vendor-specific features are packaged in plugins. Vurrently plugins for
Cisco, Juniper, and some xDSL equipment are available:
https://github.com/ssinyagin/gerty-plugins
DOCUMENTATION
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User guide:
doc/gerty_userguide.markdown
Architecture and design:
doc/gerty_architecture.markdown
Software documentation:
doc/gerty_job_configuration.markdown
doc/gerty_siteconfig_configuration.markdown
doc/gerty_devclass_configuration.markdown
doc/gerty_device_attributes.markdown
Installing from sources:
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Pre-requisites: autoconf, automake, and a number of Perl modules
git clone https://github.com/ssinyagin/gerty.git
cd gerty
autoreconf
./configure --prefix=/opt/gerty
make
make install
later on, "git pull" would refresh your copy with the latest updates
Installing documentation
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apt-get install pandoc
sh mkhtml.sh ~/public_html/gerty/
pandoc -s doc/gerty_manpage.markdown --to=man -o /usr/local/man/man1/gerty.1
Ubuntu and Debian pre-requisites:
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apt-get install make libtool autoconf git-core \
libconfig-tiny-perl libconfig-any-perl \
liblog-handler-perl libexpect-perl \
libxml-libxml-perl libnet-snmp-perl \
libdbi-perl
Mailing list
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http://chilli.nosignal.org/mailman/listinfo/gerty-users
(thanks to Andy Davidson)
TO DO
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* automate backup for Cisco files, like "vlan.dat"
(suggested by Viktor Steinmann <[email protected]>)
* write "Gerty Developer Guide"
* update documentation on Netconf, SNMP, TL1
* update documentation on DBLink and action postprocessing
Author:
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Stanislav Sinyagin
CCIE #5478
[email protected]
+41 79 407 0224