[AusNOG] (Semi/Somewhat/Paritially)-automated network configuration management

[Andrew Cox]

Have a look at NOTCH and MrCli (presented at last? years AusNOG by Andrew
Fort) created to *do stuff* on your routers/switches/etc.

http://code.google.com/p/notch/

Not necessarily a boss friendly interface however you could build it out
yourself as the access, reading and bulk-change options are already built
in for you and there's some good example code.

Regards,
Andrew

On 26 July 2012 19:52, Paul Gear <ausnog at libertysys.com.au> wrote:

>  Hi everyone,
>
> 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:
>
>    - 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.
>     - Gather my switch & router configs, along with CDP/LLDP data, and
>    note any discrepancies in VLAN tagging between devices that connect
>    back-to-back.
>
> 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?
>
> 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?
>
> Thanks,
> Paul
>
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