One of the painful parts of trying to audit configurations, is accounting for the variations in the configuration that differ based on Vendor/Model/OS etc… Additionally, accounting for ‘old’ configurations/mis-configuration across these variations adds an extra (sometimes silent, sometimes not) “WTF” as one attempts to isolate the problems.

With initial input from Arica , I wound up writing 2 scripts to find the ‘new’ configuration and one to find the old, then ‘xlookup-ed’ the differences in excel. Not to fun, but it was effective enough.  Then I figured, how hard could it be to combine them? It was harder than I though, so I created the shell, and then asked for some help from a colleague (thanks Ahmed).

@AricaFN

@AhmedKhedr 

The result of the script produces an easily scanned results for the problems.
Model ---- DeviceName ---- GoodConfig --- BadConfig

/**
* @intent Ensure SNMP Communities are correct
* @description 2 columns, one column showing where the "GOOD Strings are, and another column with the "Bad Strings"
**/
GoodStrings = >
    "*poll community PRS*",
    "*poll community MusicMan*",
    "*poll community Ibanez*",
  "*version 2c PRS*",
  "*version 2c MusicMan*",
  "*version 2c Ibanez*",
  "snmp-server mib community-map PRS*",
  "snmp-server mib community-map MusicMan*",
  "snmp-server mib community-map Ibanez*",
  "snmp-server community PRS*",
  "snmp-server community MusicMan*",
  "snmp-server community Ibanez*",
];
BadStrings =  
  "*version 2c Fender*",
  "*version 2c Washburn*",
  "*version 2c Gibson*",
  "snmp-server community Fender*",
  "snmp-server community Washburn*",
  "snmp-server community Gibson*",
  "*poll community Fender*",
  "*poll community Washburn*",
  "*poll community Gibson*",
];

Good = 
foreach device in network.devices
let lines = (foreach line in device.files.config select line.text)
let config = (foreach item in GoodStrings
              foreach line in lines
              where matches(line, item)
              select line)
select {
   Model: device.platform.os,
  device: device.name,
  good_config: config,
  tags:device.tagNames
};

Bad = 
foreach device in network.devices
let lines = (foreach line in device.files.config select line.text)
let config = (foreach item in BadStrings
              foreach line in lines
              where matches(line, item)
              select line)
select {
  Model: device.platform.os,
  device: device.name,
  bad_config: config,
  tags:device.tagNames
};

// Thanks AhmedK //
FALLBACK=
foreach x in B""]
where x != ""
select x;

combined_results()=
foreach entry in Good
foreach other_entry in Bad


where entry.device == other_entry.device
let good_config = if isPresent(entry.good_config)
						then entry.good_config
						else FALLBACK

let bad_config = if isPresent(other_entry.bad_config)
						then other_entry.bad_config
						else FALLBACK

select{
  Model: entry.Model,
  Device: entry.device,
  good_config,
  bad_config 
};



combined_results()

Results:

Device 1 and  configured with GoodConfig and BadConfig

Device 2-4 only the GoodConfig

Device 5 - Only the BadConfig