[50731] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network inventory and configuration tracking tools
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jnull)
Thu Aug 8 03:04:09 2002
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 02:03:13 -0500
From: jnull <jnelson@jnull.rackspace.com>
To: Hugh Irvine <hugh@open.com.au>
Cc: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <23B8FA0A-AA8E-11D6-9546-0003931DEC06@open.com.au>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
I and the interesting experience watching an overzealous VP in charge of "Project Capture" implement some of these tools for tracking, inventory, and cross-referencing.... The final solution, for all but configuration management, was (as Hugh mentioned) Nets. It was the most configurable and dynamic. But here you're not looking at an "out-of-the-box solution, and if the network is large enough, you'll require a small team of people to run it. Personally, I like a simple CVS system for config files, a separate system.
<fighting urge to go on pro-opensource rant>
There are several quality commercial products out there. Lucent for example, in their Vital* platform, does do everything but cook you breakfast, but for the price should. Adding to the list for IP Allocation and DNS management would be NameSurfer by Nixu.
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