[166453] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network configuration archiving
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tammy Firefly)
Fri Oct 25 00:01:10 2013
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From: Tammy Firefly <tammy-lists@wiztech.biz>
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 21:59:08 -0600
To: Kenneth McRae <kenneth.mcrae@dreamhost.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Is that licensed per device or per user out of curiosity ?
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On Oct 24, 2013, at 21:45, Kenneth McRae <kenneth.mcrae@dreamhost.com> wrote=
:
> Hiw about SolarWinds Config Mgmt software?
> On Oct 24, 2013 8:38 PM, "Jimmy Hess" <mysidia@gmail.com> wrote:
>=20
>> On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Job Snijders <
>> job.snijders@hibernianetworks.com> wrote:
>>=20
>>> 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.
>>=20
>> 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 shou=
ld
>> be more important :)
>>=20
>> Nrmally when I would want to compare software ---- I would be concerne=
d
>> 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? :)
>>=20
>> (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.
>>=20
>> (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?
>>=20
>>=20
>> (6) Maybe other stuff like what language its written in, if extra
>> features need to be added
>>=20
>> --
>> -JH
>>=20
