Brian- We're in a similar boat, but our network configuration sounds to be less dynamic than yours. Nothing that I can offer up in the way of a solution from direct experience.
I did recall reading about this way back, and tracked it down in "Managing Enterprise Active Directory Services." From page 239: "After nine months of intense work and trial and error with the algorithm, they [Alan Conley and Robbie Allen] were successful in being able to extrapolate networking information from Cisco's internal routner configuration files into Active Directory site topology." There's also a note describing the algorithm as "patent pending." Maybe Robbie's hedging his bets on this MIT thing :-) My guess is that any automated system for this has a very steep development curve. Hunter -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Desmond Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 6:44 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [ActiveDir] Site/Subnet Management Hi all, Wondering what strategies you all use for managing sites & subnets in your AD environment. Mine is fluid in this regard. There are roughly 650 physical locations with 2 subnets per. The number of locations is fluctual in terms of add/drop. Currently we have just a small handful of AD sites, and save for a couple dozen subnets, they all go in one big happy site. We're moving towards putting DCs at remote locations and thus they're going to start getting their own sites. The current system is fairly manual - I start seeing netlogon warnings about # of no site connections, email the WAN guy and get his subnet/location spreadsheet, and then i mangle it a bit into a CSV. I delete all the existing subnets. Run my vbscript which recreates them all according to the CSV. This is all well and good I guess but it's an annoying system. Anybody got anything better? List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
