[161411] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Network Configuration Management
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petter Bruland)
Tue Mar 12 14:31:34 2013
From: Petter Bruland <Petter.Bruland@allegiantair.com>
To: Warren Bailey <wbailey@satelliteintelligencegroup.com>, chip
<chip.gwyn@gmail.com>, "chip@2bithacker.net" <chip@2bithacker.net>
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 18:31:03 +0000
In-Reply-To: <qqfnufufnmiy3tqtcu0q8d2i.1363112121336@email.android.com>
Cc: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Just an FYI on "if you can tolerate their sales borg".=20
If you request a quote and do not purchase, get ready for a borg attack of =
emails and calls.=20
On topic:
We're trying to survive with RANCID, which is great for pushing changes wit=
hout any feedback... Last job we used Solarwinds NCM, and that's a fairly =
nice tool.
We also had HP on site with their "Configuration Management System", which =
looked good until we started looking into support for Enterasys and Brocade=
. There were some short comings and expectation for custom written code to =
support 3rd party hardware.=20
-P
-----Original Message-----
From: Warren Bailey [mailto:wbailey@satelliteintelligencegroup.com]=20
Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2013 11:15 AM
To: chip; chip@2bithacker.net
Cc: North American Network Operators Group
Subject: Re: Network Configuration Management
Solar winds ncm is great if you can tolerate their sales borg.
From my Android phone on T-Mobile. The first nationwide 4G network.
-------- Original message --------
From: chip <chip.gwyn@gmail.com>
Date: 03/12/2013 11:09 AM (GMT-08:00)
To: chip@2bithacker.net
Cc: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Subject: Re: Network Configuration Management
I've never found anything that hits all of my needs. The closest off the s=
helf thing I've ever found is the Network Control System from Tail-F ( http=
://www.tail-f.com/network-control-system/). We're using a custom built app=
that's been refined over the last decade and does a really nice job.
It uses a very similar model of configuration management as Tail-F does bu=
t now quite the application. Just generating config isn't all that difficu=
lt. The hard part is pushing to the devices and working out what to do wh=
en on-box and off-box doesn't match.
Good luck in your search, and if you find something really cool, be sure to=
post back!
--chip
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Chip Marshall <chip@2bithacker.net> wrote:
> Just curious what people are using for network configuration=20
> manangement systems. I'm guessing most places have something built=20
> in-house, but before starting down that road I figured it would be a=20
> good idea to see if people have any off-the-shelf systems they like.
>
> Some features I'd like to have:
> * Interface configs
> * Firewall filter configs
> * BGP session configs
> * User management
> * Support for multiple router and switch vendors (at least
> Juniper and Cisco)
>
> --
> Chip Marshall <chip@2bithacker.net>
> http://2bithacker.net/
>
--
Just my $.02, your mileage may vary, batteries not included, etc....
