[161412] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Network Configuration Management
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeffrey Negro)
Tue Mar 12 14:35:04 2013
From: Jeffrey Negro <jnegro@advance.net>
To: "chip@2bithacker.net" <chip@2bithacker.net>, "nanog@nanog.org"
<nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 18:35:47 +0000
In-Reply-To: <20130312175813.GA27817@2bithacker.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
We use Rancid and have it run every hour against Juniper and Cisco gear=2E =
If there's a change, we get an email, and all the revisions are automatica=
lly saved in SVN=2E Attach WebSVN and you have a nice web viewer=2E You a=
dminister the devices as you normally would, but you'll have automatic vers=
ion control and change monitoring=2E It's simple to set up, and free=2E=
=0D=0A=0D=0A-----Original Message-----=0D=0AFrom: Chip Marshall [mailto:chi=
p@2bithacker=2Enet] =0D=0ASent: Tuesday, March 12, 2013 1:58 PM=0D=0ATo: na=
nog@nanog=2Eorg=0D=0ASubject: Network Configuration Management=0D=0A=0D=0AJ=
ust curious what people are using for network configuration manangement sys=
tems=2E I'm guessing most places have something built in-house, but before =
starting down that road I figured it would be a good idea to see if people =
have any off-the-shelf systems they like=2E=0D=0A=0D=0ASome features I'd li=
ke to have:=0D=0A * Interface configs=0D=0A * Firewall filter configs=0D=0A=
* BGP session configs=0D=0A * User management=0D=0A * Support for multiple=
router and switch vendors (at least=0D=0A Juniper and Cisco)=0D=0A=0D=0A=
--=0D=0AChip Marshall <chip@2bithacker=2Enet>=0D=0Ahttp://2bithacker=2Enet/=
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