Re: Network inventory and configuration tracking tools

[Hugh Irvine <hugh () open com au>]

Hello Sean -

Could I suggest you add Nets to the list you show below?

Nets is commercial software (from the same people who wrote the Radiator 
radius server), and like Radiator is delivered in source code form. 
There is complete support for extending the existing set of objects and 
documented API's for adding functionality.

Nets is written in Perl and runs on pretty much any platform and any SQL 
database.

Here is the URL if you are interested:

        http://www.open.com.au/nets

regards

Hugh


On Thursday, August 8, 2002, at 01:09 PM, Sean Donelan wrote:

> How about an operations oriented question.  What is the current
> preferences amoung network operators for network inventory and
> configuration management tools? Not so much status monitoring (up,
> down) but other stuff network operator wants to know like circuit
> IDs (how many IDs can a circuit have?), network contacts, design layout
> reports (layer 1/2/3), what's supposed to be connected to that port?
> The stuff you can't get out of the box itself.
>
> Most ISPs seem to end up with a combination of homegrown systems,
> opensource, and commercial products.  The commercial "integrated"
> systems have lots of stuff, and according to the vendors can do
> anything including splice fiber.
>
> CiscoWorks      www.cisco.com
> Netcracker      www.netcracker.com
> NetView         www.tivoli.com
> Openview        www.hp.com
> VitalQIP        www.qip.lucent.com
> Visionael       www.visionael.com
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