I've used Kiwi Cattools as well as some homegrown perl and shell script stuff for versioning / audit trails.
Cattools works OK and scales. Unsure of pricing structure though. I never liked Ciscoworks for doing it even though it will manage your devices that way. On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Stefan <netfort...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mar 13, 2013 9:31 AM, "Eric Van Tol" <e...@atlantech.net> wrote: > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Chip Marshall [mailto:c...@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 >
