[50725] in North American Network Operators' Group
Network inventory and configuration tracking tools
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Wed Aug 7 23:09:59 2002
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 23:09:28 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
How about an operations oriented question. What is the current
preferences amoung network operators for network inventory and
configuration management tools? Not so much status monitoring (up,
down) but other stuff network operator wants to know like circuit
IDs (how many IDs can a circuit have?), network contacts, design layout
reports (layer 1/2/3), what's supposed to be connected to that port?
The stuff you can't get out of the box itself.
Most ISPs seem to end up with a combination of homegrown systems,
opensource, and commercial products. The commercial "integrated"
systems have lots of stuff, and according to the vendors can do
anything including splice fiber.
CiscoWorks www.cisco.com
Netcracker www.netcracker.com
NetView www.tivoli.com
Openview www.hp.com
VitalQIP www.qip.lucent.com
Visionael www.visionael.com
