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Hi everyone,<br>
<br>
Just wondering about everyone's thoughts on this issue, and looking
for product recommendations. I have a couple of problems that i
would like to solve with a network configuration management tool:<br>
<ul>
<li>Find every occurrence of VLAN X on my entire network, across
multiple switch vendors and models, report about it in a
boss-friendly format, and then produce (or help me produce) a
script to change VLAN X to VLAN Y.<br>
</li>
<li>Gather my switch & router configs, along with CDP/LLDP
data, and note any discrepancies in VLAN tagging between devices
that connect back-to-back.<br>
</li>
</ul>
<p>These are just examples, although they are real problems that i
would like to solve in my current environment - i'm sure there are
plenty more analytics that would be helpful as well. It's 2012,
and i can't understand why i can't find a canned (non-scripted)
solution for this out there on the web. Is it just my Google-fu
failing, or are the tools still rudimentary?<br>
</p>
<p>For the record, i've got plenty of experience with RANCID, i've
tested Kiwi CatTools (seems to be just a prettied-up version of
RANCID), and i've tried to find other relevant products from
SolarWinds, Infoblox, and ManageEngine, but nothing is really
jumping off the page. Any suggestions?<br>
</p>
<p>Thanks,<br>
Paul</p>
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