Joe, If you're looking for a commercial solution, you might try out our Orion NCM product.
http://www.solarwinds.com/products/orion/configuration_manager/ Ping me if you want any additional info. Josh -----Original Message----- From: Joe Provo [mailto:nanog-p...@rsuc.gweep.net] Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 8:11 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Config Backup / Inventory On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 09:25:05AM +0100, Joshua Eyres wrote: [snip] > I am looking for a bit of advice around configuration backup / inventory. We > currently have a large multi-vendor network which is currently managed > through two separate tools (rancid - http://www.shrubbery.net/rancid and ns4 > - http://www.noodles.org.uk/ns4.html). Both tools do the job very well, but > management have asked that we look for commercial alternatives that have a > proper support organisation looking after them. Since rtrmon waned and rancid waxed (97ish?), I've been a proponent and seen no support issues. Lots of commercial offerings (mostly vendor- specific) have changed or were from companies which folded between then and now. A non-trivial track record speaks volumes. [snip] > things about it. We are looking for a tool which is flexible that allows > configuration backup to textual form for easy restoration as well as the > ability to deploy scripted changes to the network quickly. Sounds like rancid & par to me. :-) Cheers, Joe -- RSUC / GweepNet / Spunk / FnB / Usenix / SAGE
