RANCID (software)

This article is about the software. For other uses, see Rancid (disambiguation).

RANCID (Really Awesome New Cisco Config Differ) is a network management application released under a BSD-style license.^[1] RANCID uses Expect to connect to the routers, send some commands and put the results in files.

Software which utilises RANCID-collected configs

• LibreNMS
• Observium
• OpenNMS

See also

• Free and open-source software portal

• Network management system (NMS)
• Console Server
• Router
• Switch