Cisco webex is the leading enterprise solution for video conferencing, webinars, and screen sharing. Once the authentication has been setup you can test to see that it works. Rancid is a tool for backuping cisco configurations. The terms and conditions provided govern your use of that software.
This documentation is accurate as of april 6, 2012. Whats up gold will do it as well, but honestly, unless you are invested in any of the paid software already, or you have noncisco devices, i suggest just sticking to rancid as noted above. Logging into cisco devices is done by the clogin command located in varlib rancid bin debian and ubuntu and usrlibexec rancid centos. Rancid does this by the very simple process summarized as. Rancid uses expect to connect to the routers, send some commands and put the results in files. Services network and security rancid centos howtos. Cisco software is not sold, but is licensed to the registered end user. Rancid monitors a routers or more generally a devices configuration, including software and hardware cards, serial numbers, etc and uses cvs concurrent version system, subversion or git to maintain history of changes. Rancid is monitoring software designed to automatically retrieve and backup configuration, primarily from cisco devices, but also from a range of. Using the rancid user sudo i u rancid you can try to login to one of the devices.
Get a smart account for your organization or initiate it for someone else. It is designed to help troubleshoot and check the overall health of your cisco supported software. Web conferencing, online meeting, cloud calling and equipment. To open or view cases, you need a service contract.