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Spur Setup

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. Emails can be sent when there is a diff if you want.

System Requirements

Python - simply type "which python" in a command prompt to see if python is installed

Django 1.4 -

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, mysql, postgres - I suggest running sqlite if you don't want to setup a daemon style db

sudo apt-get install sqlite

Python Requirements

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

Spur Instalattion

Once you've met the system and python requirements, grab a copy of spur

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

cd spur

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

python manage.py syncdb #create an admin user

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