[113966] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Config Backup / Inventory
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephens, Josh)
Fri Apr 24 15:26:02 2009
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:25:55 -0500
In-Reply-To: <20090424131047.GA73165@gweep.net>
From: "Stephens, Josh" <Josh.Stephens@solarwinds.com>
To: <nanog-post@rsuc.gweep.net>,
<nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Joe,
If you're looking for a commercial solution, you might try out our Orion
NCM product.
http://www.solarwinds.com/products/orion/configuration_manager/
Ping me if you want any additional info.
Josh
-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Provo [mailto:nanog-post@rsuc.gweep.net]=20
Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 8:11 AM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Config Backup / Inventory
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 09:25:05AM +0100, Joshua Eyres wrote:
[snip]
> I am looking for a bit of advice around configuration backup /
inventory. We
> currently have a large multi-vendor network which is currently managed
> through two separate tools (rancid - http://www.shrubbery.net/rancid
and ns4
> - http://www.noodles.org.uk/ns4.html). Both tools do the job very
well, but
> management have asked that we look for commercial alternatives that
have a
> proper support organisation looking after them.
Since rtrmon waned and rancid waxed (97ish?), I've been a proponent and=20
seen no support issues. Lots of commercial offerings (mostly vendor-
specific) have changed or were from companies which folded between then=20
and now. A non-trivial track record speaks volumes.
[snip]
> things about it. We are looking for a tool which is flexible that
allows
> configuration backup to textual form for easy restoration as well as
the
> ability to deploy scripted changes to the network quickly.
Sounds like rancid & par to me. :-)
Cheers,
Joe
--=20
RSUC / GweepNet / Spunk / FnB / Usenix / SAGE
