Welcome to the Cisco Config Backup Collector / RemoteWork wiki!

RemoteWork - Telnet and SSH auto command executor and configuration downloads. Usage for Cisco, Juniper other network devices and UNIX-like machines for easy and fast device configuration backups and management.

Technologies

Main technologies:

• .Net Framework 4.5
• C# 5.0
• MS SQL Server Express 2012
• Visual Studio 2013
• Windows Forms
• Entify Framework 6.0

Additional libraries:

• LinqToExcel
• SharpSnmpLib
• DiffPlex

Structure

Project include 6 modules:

• RemoteWork - WinForms GUI
• RemoteWorkUtil - Console app for easy task scheduling
• RemoteWork.Access - EF configuration
• RemoteWork.Data - Model implemetation
• RemoteWork.Expect - SSH and Telnet connection algorithms
• RemoteWork.Collector - Console app for fast configuration and backup as RANCID or ANSIBLE (not implemented yet)
• WebAppRemoteConfig - ASP.NET MVC app (not implemented yet)
• WebAppRemoteConfig.Tests - Unit tests for MVC app (not implemented yet)

Authorisation

Has 4 authorisation modes for Telnet protocol:

• simple (username and password)
• simple with enable mode (username, password, enable password)
• anonymous (only password)
• anonymous with enable mode (password, enable password)

Has 2 authorisation modes for SSH protocol:

• simple
• simple with enable mode.

##Benefits Application has several benefits:

• Customisable timeout for each device
• Extended authorisation mode
• Customisable command order
• Multithreading connections (over 550 devices configuration backup in 3 minutes with 4 core CPU )
• Differ tools for configurations