Capture network device config snapshots diffs and change attribution after edits with Oxidized

Pull running configs from routers and switches on a schedule or after change events so you can diff drift, audit edits, and recover known-good state.

Prerequisites

Oxidized, network device access credentials, supported source inventory, and storage/output backend such as Git or files

Installation

Use the upstream install or setup path that matches your environment:

• gem install oxidized
• gem install oxidized-web # Web interface and rest API
• gem install oxidized-script # Script-based input/output extensions
• git clone https://github.com/ytti/oxidized.git

Requirements and caveats from upstream:

• Restful API to a move node immediately to head-of-queue (GET/PUT /node/next/[NODE])
• Restful API to fetch configurations (/node/fetch/[NODE] or /node/fetch/group/[NODE])
• Restful API to show list of version for a node (/node/version[NODE]) and diffs

Basic usage or getting-started notes:

• Syslog udp+file example to catch config change events (IOS/JunOS) and trigger a config fetch

• Debian and Ubuntu

• Debian 12 "bookworm" or newer and Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish) or newer are recommended. On Ubuntu, begin by enabling the universe

• Source: https://github.com/ytti/oxidized

• Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ytti/oxidized/HEAD/README.md

Documentation

• https://github.com/ytti/oxidized

Source

• Agent Skill Exchange