<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Hi Phil,</div><div><br></div><div>We have a custom-built SQL database of our devices (including</div><div>some meta-data about them) that allows us to drive (with some glue) </div><div>whatever third party packages we wish to use - commercial or not.</div><div><br></div><div>Having that sort of fluidity is nice, because if you get sick of tool 'X'</div><div>you can supplement or replace it in a fairly isolated fashion.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm not necessarily against having multiple systems to collect data from</div><div>the network: e.g, you wouldn't want your monitoring system to go down</div><div>when you took your RRD's offline for maintenance, etc.</div><div><br></div><div>Backing up configs is a simple, and yet potentially frustrating exercise </div><div>when you're running a heterogeneous environment - there are usually </div><div>many ways to do it but a key outcome should be to have a mechanism to </div><div>diff them over time.</div><div><br></div><div>Don't forget that if you're a Cisco shop you should also backup your VLAN</div><div>databases (if anyone's interested in a convenient way of doing this via </div><div>SNMP, contact me off-list).</div><div><br></div><div>We feed our syslog and command accounting records back into an SQL</div><div>database. Having authentication, accounting and syslog records in a </div><div>'correlate-able' format is <i>truly</i> sexy, and makes troubleshooting <i>much</i> </div><div>easier when you can point at a device (or group of devices) and ask "what </div><div>just happened?".</div><div><br></div><div>We use MRTG/RRDTool for a large chunk of our performance </div><div>management, and it runs flawlessly for many 1000's of targets.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>-- Tom</div><div><br></div><br><div><div>On 04/07/2010, at 9:30 PM, phil colbourn wrote:</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">What do you use for</span></font></div><ul><li>Alarm/event management (SNMP traps, syslog)</li>
<li>Performance management (SNMP Polls)</li><li>Backup config files</li><li>AAA (local, RADIUS)</li><li>Configuration management</li></ul></blockquote><br></div><div><br></div><br><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>-- <br>Kind Regards,<br><br>Tom Wright<br>Internode Network Operations<br>P: +61 8 8228 2999<br>W: <a href="http://www.internode.on.net">http://www.internode.on.net</a></div></div></span></span>
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