[166451] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network configuration archiving
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kenneth McRae)
Thu Oct 24 23:48:42 2013
In-Reply-To: <CAAAwwbUQvt05YvNhqT4NQDx2NQ1GKvYB1BrO51PDFLCRMApNLg@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 20:45:20 -0700
From: Kenneth McRae <kenneth.mcrae@dreamhost.com>
To: Jimmy Hess <mysidia@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Hiw about SolarWinds Config Mgmt software?
On Oct 24, 2013 8:38 PM, "Jimmy Hess" <mysidia@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Job Snijders <
> job.snijders@hibernianetworks.com> wrote:
>
> > Dear all,
> > I am unsure what we as networkers have done in the past, but I am sure
> > we've done our fair share of atonement and don't have to keep using
> > RANCID.
> >
>
> Does the nature of the codebase and future development matter all that
> much? Not to dismiss it as a factor, but I think other criteria should
> be more important :)
>
> Nrmally when I would want to compare software ---- I would be concerned
> first and foremost, (1) What does it do/what makes it unique -- is
> something special about package X over package Y?;
> (2) Does it meet all the minimum needs I have right now to be a viable
> solution?
> Does it grab all my configs and put them in a permanent
> revision control system? :)
>
> (3) How reliable is it, can I trust it? Is it very secure and safe to
> use? It's no good if it breaks, fails, or does something dangerous.
> How much care and feeding will it need to keep working? If it
> needs complex repair work every few weeks, I don't like it.
>
> (4) How easy is it to get up and running, and to perform any required
> ongoing maintenance
> (5) What extra nice to have functionality does it have?
>
>
> (6) Maybe other stuff like what language its written in, if extra
> features need to be added
>
> --
> -JH
>
