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Spur - Network Configuration Manager

I've been developing a web front-end for tratto.  This front end is called spur and allows you to run commands on any ssh/telnet available device and store the outputs.

• Web configured cron jobs
• Any command set
• Define your own operating systems
• Run diff's on command outputs
• Since you can run any command you can do things like backup configurations from cisco routers and switches
• Get alerts on outputs, diffs, and failures
• Synatx highlighting

I'm looking to release this for free via github in the near future.  Meanwhile here are some screenshots:

Spur Network Configuration Manager Has been released

Spur is a web based network configuration manager. It allows you to ssh or telnet to any device and run commands through a web front-end.The results of these commands are stored and can be diff'd. You can get alerted whenever a diff is found.  You can extend Spur's capabilities by writing your own modules for different types of equipment.

Spur is comprised of:

• Tratto - a ssh/telenet framework built on-top of pexpect
• A custom written "cron" which allows you to create and schedule repetitive tasks
• Customized django skin
• Cisco syntax highlighting via syntax-highlighter

System Requirements

• Python
• Django 1.4+
• Sqlite, mysql, posgres

which python # find out if you have python installed

#django installation
wget http://www.djangoproject.com/m/releases/1.4/Django-1.4.1.tar.gz
tar xzvf Django-1.4.1.tar.gz
cd Django-1.4.1
sudo python setup.py install

#sqlite installation
sudo apt-get install sqlite

Python Requirements

• django-mptt
• pexpect
• croniter
• pytz

sudo easy_install django-mptt
sudo easy_install pexpect
sudo easy_install croniter
sudo easy_install pytz

Spur Installation

git clone https://github.com/akonkol/spur.git
cd spur

#edit this file to match your enviornment
vi spur/spur_settings.py 

#create an admin user
python manage.py syncdb 
python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000

#Create a cronjob for spur
crontab -e
* * * * * /path/to/spur/manage.py spur-cron

Browse to spur http://your_fqdn_or_ip:8000

Thanks for checking it out.