[AusNOG] Network Management and Tools

[Ryan Benson]

+1 for RANCID, Cacti and Nagios (Poll, not traps). For me, RANCID is
an absolute essential, combined with some kind of CVS web front end
its golden.

>>     * Configuration management
> A bunch of scripts written around rancid to verify essential bits and
> draw the network diagrams.

Are these in-house scripts?

On 5 July 2010 08:38, Julien Goodwin <ausnog at studio442.com.au> wrote:
> For us our network is very much secondary to our systems, but...
>
> On 04/07/10 22:00, phil colbourn wrote:
>> What do you use for
>>
>>     * Alarm/event management (SNMP traps, syslog)
> Nagios, although we poll and don't use traps.
>
>>     * Performance management (SNMP Polls)
> Cacti, have been trying ObserverNMS
>
>>     * Backup config files
> Rancid.
>
>>     * AAA (local, RADIUS)
> Local account per host, we have an encrypted password archive. Systems
> get SSH keys distributed.
>
>>     * Configuration management
> A bunch of scripts written around rancid to verify essential bits and
> draw the network diagrams.
>
>> What fault finding tools (ping, traceroute) do you use?
> We often have issues that relate to the stacking of *many* firewalls
> (one of our sites has three firewalls between it and the world, all
> customer run) which tcptraceroute can be useful for.
>
>> Do you rely on commercial products?
>> Do you rely on Open Source products?
> We're very much a FOSS shop despite what our management may think (the
> fact that even when we do want to go commercial we never get the money
> may have something to do with that).
>
> Julien
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