[76353] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Intelligent Automation of network tasks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hannigan, Martin)
Tue Dec 7 14:08:58 2004
From: "Hannigan, Martin" <hannigan@verisign.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 14:08:22 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Call me sentimental, but I was using/making my previous staff
use rtrmon in the absence of big OSS systems. I believe it's
still up at ISC somewhere. I can't remember if it has a
"glob all" function. I do remember it would probably be easy
enough to integrate.
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Martin Hannigan (c) 617-388-2663
VeriSign, Inc. (w) 703-948-7018
Network Engineer IV Operations & Infrastructure
hannigan@verisign.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 1:54 PM
> To: Ejay Hire
> Cc: nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: Re: Intelligent Automation of network tasks
>
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 12:39:25PM -0600, Ejay Hire wrote:
> >
> > In my opinion, every network with more than a dozen or so
> routers needs
> > an automated method to distribute massive configuration
> changes. There
> > is a lot of fear that something will break during updates,
> but with some
> > intelligence, that risk can be minimized.
>
> juniper and cisco both support taking machine generated
> configurations generated by a non-router device (eg: unix host).
>
> http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/iosswrel/ps5207/product
s_feature_guide09186a00801d1dc2.html
it's not just in 12.3T, it's also in 12.2S..
on your juniper, try something like "config, load override"
- jared
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