Cisco Clear Counters

To clear counters from "show int <interface>"

hostname# clear counters <interface>

Cisco IOS Scheduled backups

I needed a way to take regular backups of my Cisco equipment on my network.

Doing it manually was time consuming and difficult to rely on busy engineers.

I started to look at scripting using Putty and SSH different tools.

Then I found CatTools from Kiwi.
http://www.kiwisyslog.com/kiwi-cattools-overview/

It allows me to take regualar backups of my devices.

and it also compares the backups and notifies by email of any changes to the configuration.

Perefect for what I needed.