rConfig V8: A New Era of Network Change Visibility and Control

If you’ve been managing networks for a while, you know the pain points: tracking changes, pinpointing root causes, proving compliance, and most importantly — knowing what changed, when, and why. Traditional tools like RANCID and Oxidized have served the community well, offering simple configuration backups. But in today’s fast-paced, compliance-driven environments, they fall short.

With rConfig V8, we’re changing the game.

rConfig V8 introduces Change Pulse, an industry-first dashboard and feature set that doesn’t just track configuration changes — it lets you capture and search historical network state changes. From BGP peer drops to missing prefixes and MAC address tracking, we’re bringing unparalleled visibility into your infrastructure.

Let’s break it down.

1. Configuration & State Backups: Together at Last

Network configuration management (NCM) traditionally focuses on backing up static device configurations. But modern networks are dynamic — routing tables change, interfaces flap, neighbors disappear.

rConfig V8 introduces a dual-backup model:

• Configuration Backup – Capture full startup/running configs from supported devices on schedule or manually.

• State Backup – Capture dynamic CLI outputs like show ip route, show bgp summary, show mac address-table, and more.

This ensures you have a point-in-time snapshot not only of your configuration, but of the state of your network when incidents happen.

Need to prove a prefix disappeared before a customer escalation? Need to check when a MAC address was last active? Now you can.

2. Track Changes: Pull or Push-Based

You’ve got options:

• Pull-Based Tracking – rConfig V8 polls devices on schedule, compares configurations and state outputs, and highlights differences.

• Push-Based Tracking – Devices can now alert rConfig directly via SNMP traps when they detect a config change.

Whether your environment prefers proactive pulls or reactive pushes, Change Pulse handles both.

Every change, from a line added to a config to a new OSPF neighbor, can be captured, tracked, and triaged.

3. Email Digest Reports: Stay Ahead of Drift

Config drift is a slow killer in large-scale environments. A missed ACL tweak here, a forgotten BGP neighbor there — and suddenly, you’ve got outages, or worse, compliance gaps.

With rConfig V8, you get automated change digest emails straight to your inbox. Delivered daily or weekly, these reports include:

• A summary of changes

• Severity levels

• Reviewed/unreviewed statuses

• Links to dive deeper into each change event

Perfect for network leads, compliance managers, or auditors.

4. Change Pulse Dashboard: Search Everything

This is where it all comes together.

The Change Pulse Dashboard is your mission control — a unified view into all historical changes across your network.

And it’s fully searchable.

Want to find out:

• What changed on all firewalls last Friday?

• What critical changes were made last month in the core?

• When was the last time anyone updated a config in the WAN category?

You can.

Change Pulse search filters include:

• Time Periods – Last 24 hours, 7 days, 30 days, or custom ranges

• Devices – Narrow down to specific devices, groups, or locations

• Categories – Logical command groups (e.g., Routing, Security, WAN, etc.)

• Tags – Label and track changes by type, importance, feature, or project

• Reviewers – Track who reviewed what, what’s overdue, and what’s pending

• Review Status – Search reviewed/unreviewed changes for audit prep

• Date Range – Filter changes by precise calendar periods for forensics

This isn’t just search — it’s full-blown change intelligence.

5. The Only NCM That Sees Everything

There’s no shortage of NCM tools. But none provide:

• Historical state awareness

• Config + state diffs in one place

• Push/pull change detection

• Advanced search over all changes

• Digest reporting for proactive oversight

RANCID and Oxidized are great at pulling configs and versioning them. But they don’t understand the why or the impact of those changes. And they don’t let you search when a BGP peer dropped at 2am.

rConfig V8 does.

Built for Ops. Designed for Scale.

Whether you're managing 50 devices or 50,000, rConfig V8 is lightweight, fast, and built for serious operations teams:

• CLI and GUI workflows for engineers and leads

• Role-based access control for delegated responsibilities

• API-first architecture for automation and integration

• Modern UI built with Vue 3 and Tailwind for fast navigation

And of course — fully self-hosted, secure, and 100% owned by you.

Coming Soon — Stay Tuned

We’re gearing up for the public launch of rConfig V8, and it’s unlike anything else in the network automation and compliance space.

Want to see Change Pulse in action? Join the early access list or request a personalized demo.

👉 https://www.rconfig.com/v8

This is the new standard for NCM.

Config. State. Intelligence. All in one.

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