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RE: Network Configuration Management
From: Warren Bailey <wbailey () satelliteintelligencegroup com>
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 15:33:42 +0000
You will grow tired of their sales people long before you approach a brick wall of scalability.
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-------- Original message -------- From: Stefan <netfortius () gmail com> Date: 03/13/2013 7:53 AM (GMT-08:00) To: Eric Van Tol <eric () atlantech net> Cc: nanog () nanog org Subject: RE: Network Configuration Management On Mar 13, 2013 9:31 AM, "Eric Van Tol" <eric () atlantech net> wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: Chip Marshall [mailto:chip () 2bithacker net] Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2013 1:58 PM To: nanog () nanog org Subject: Network Configuration Management Just curious what people are using for network configuration manangement systems. I'm guessing most places have something built in-house, but before starting down that road I figured it would be a good idea to see if people have any off-the-shelf systems they like.Solarwinds NCM is what we use. It's multivendor and even handles
menu-driven configurations and can easily be used to run commands on devices such as Linux servers for iptables firewall rules. It can perform inventory management and do things like search for MAC addresses on your network. Moreover, it can do policy reporting to ensure that your devices meet your configuration standards, both custom-made and for regulatory compliance like HIPAA/SOX/PCI/etc.
We used to use RANCID, which worked great, but we outgrew it when we
needed something to backup multiple vendors and didn't have the resources to modify the code to do what we needed.
As other posters mentioned, their sales force is unrelentless, even after
you purchase. It took a lot of complaining to finally get off whatever internal sales list we were on. Cost is also a concern, as it increases with the more devices you need to manage, plus there's a yearly maintenance fee. That said, I feel the cost is somewhat justified, as they have a pretty good development team that is quite active on their support forums and they listen to customer feedback for features.
-evt
To those of you using Solarwinds: what about scalability? How many devices do you presently support with this solution, and under which hardware or VM and storage configuration, if you don't mind sharing that? Stefan
Current thread:
- Re: Network Configuration Management, (continued)
- Re: Network Configuration Management chip (Mar 12)
- Re: Network Configuration Management Warren Bailey (Mar 12)
- RE: Network Configuration Management Petter Bruland (Mar 12)
- Re: Network Configuration Management Warren Bailey (Mar 12)
- Re: Network Configuration Management Job Snijders (Mar 12)
- RE: Network Configuration Management Jeffrey Negro (Mar 12)
- Re: Network Configuration Management Joe Abley (Mar 12)
- Re: Network Configuration Management Michal Loncek (Mar 13)
- RE: Network Configuration Management Eric Van Tol (Mar 13)
- RE: Network Configuration Management Stefan (Mar 13)
- Re: Network Configuration Management Charles Mills (Mar 13)
- RE: Network Configuration Management Warren Bailey (Mar 13)
- RE: Network Configuration Management Stefan (Mar 13)
- Re: Network Configuration Management chip (Mar 12)