Recently I was doing some work for a hotel that supplies a ‘Smart TV’ device with Netflix and other functions in every room. These rooms are in turn all connected to a hotspot network and the TV’s all needed to be given internet access.
As this was (as sometimes occurs) an unexpected addition to the known requirements of the installation, it fell to me to come up with a way to add these – preferably without having to have someone walk around manually collect details for 300+ TV’s.
I was recently looking for a simpler alternative to something like RANCID to periodically backup all our MikroTik configs.
RANCID is great and all, but I didn’t really need the diff copies of each file, and I was plenty happy just knowing that I have a .backup and .rsc file for each router I manage.
Given I use Gmail it might have been ok just to have each router send them there and leave it at that, but I’m not really the sort of person to half-ass my afterhours projects.. I learnt from Greg that you have to just whole-ass them 🙂
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