Recently deployed some Opengear serial consoles (love them, they work great). I needed a way to back them up in some kind of automated fashion. Turns out Opengear has written some scripts to work with Rancid .
One of the thing that was a mild irritation was that Rancid didn’t work with git.
Rancid is a collection of perl bits which are able to login to various network devices and extract their configurations.