GERTY ===== 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 -------------- * 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 ----------------------- 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 ------------- 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: ------------------------ 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 ------------------------ 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: --------------------------------- 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 ------------ http://chilli.nosignal.org/mailman/listinfo/gerty-users (thanks to Andy Davidson) TO DO ----- * automate backup for Cisco files, like "vlan.dat" (suggested by Viktor Steinmann <stony@stony.com>) * write "Gerty Developer Guide" * update documentation on Netconf, SNMP, TL1 * update documentation on DBLink and action postprocessing Author: ------- Stanislav Sinyagin CCIE #5478 ssinyagin@k-open.com +41 79 407 0224