On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 11:19 AM, Keegan Holley <keegan.hol...@sungard.com> wrote: > It was more curiosity. I'm looking in to scripting and starting to get > tired of having to account for ssh/telnet, credentials, differences in
'write a library'... someone once said. > platforms and code from the same vendor and my various failed attempts to do > all of the above. Most of the automation suites I've seen work via logins, > rancid,HP NA etc etc. Although there are better programmers that can and > have made it work it still seems cumbersome to me. I've pretty much made the it is, somewhat, yes. > assumption that writable SNMP was a bad idea but have never actually tried > it. I was curious what others were using, netconf or just scripted logins. > I'm also fighting a losing battle to convince people that netconf isn't > evil. It strikes me as odd that if I wanted to talk to a database/website > full of credit card and billing info there's a long list of API's I could > use, but if I wanted to talk to the router or firewall in front of it I can > only use ssh or telnet. sad, right? there are millions of restful program writers, only a few thousand network device programmers, and the vast majority of 'network management' is done by people perfectly happy with 'cisco-works' :(
