> : So you always have a copy of all current configs, can roll back to any > : previous version, and it's obvious when any config changes get made. > > > There is also the IronView Network Manager... >
Enough said :-) I looked at Ironview, and wasn't impressed. Perhaps it has improved.... but we thought it was a lot of money for not a lot of functionality. It's definitely NOT a network management package - more of a router/config management tool. We decided not to buy it - it had some nice features, but didn't give us anything that we didn't already have via various other freeware tools (rancid, netdisco, mrtg). On the other hand, we DID buy Inmon traffic server (a Sflow analysis package) and are very impressed with it. The "fan-out" report is one of the most useful reports I've obtained from any network management tool. Another tool which is worth a look is netdisco (www.netdisco.org). It's very cisco-centric, but I've been working on a patch to get it to use FDP rather than CDP. Without that patch, you need to enter topology information manually, which is tedious, but once set up it polls all routers and switches regularly, retrieving arp and bridging tables, and storing it in a database. So you can very quickly find out which devices (by mac or ip) are connected to each switch port. You can also enable/disable ports via netdisco. Definitely worth a closer look. Bruce. -- Bruce Rodger |[EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key available Network Manager, IT Services |http://www.strath.ac.uk/IT/People/bruce.html The University of Strathclyde | +44 (0)141 548 3300 Glasgow G4 0LN, Scotland. | Fax 553 4100 From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Sep 30 18:56:51 2004 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Sharaz) Date: Thu Sep 30 18:54:47 2004 Subject: [f-nsp] using In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Many thanks for this bruce, Nive thing to have a play around with on a Friday afternoon :-)) Alex --On 30 September 2004 21:04 +0100 Bruce Rodger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.shrubbery.net/rancid/ Sent using Mulberry 3.1.2 From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Sep 30 19:10:12 2004 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cliff Fogle) Date: Thu Sep 30 19:10:28 2004 Subject: [f-nsp] using Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Do not forget using snmp to trigger a tftp backup, see page 68: http://www.foundrynet.com/services/documentation/MIB/mib.pdf This is what I do. Works flawlessly from a tiny shell script in cron. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alex Sharaz Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 10:29 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [f-nsp] using Hi chaps, quick question about tftp'ing config files off foundry kit onto a tftp server. I've cobbled together a set of expect scripts, one per router, switch etc that log onto a foundry box,and execute a tftp command to save the config back onto my server. (sigh! our extreme kit does this for you automagically, why can't foundry) Anyway, the scripts all work when i run it from a bash shell on my linux box but screw up when I try to run it from a cron job. It conects and then seems to screw up when passing the login information Anyone seen this before? Any help appreciated TIA Alex Sent using Mulberry 3.1.2 _______________________________________________ foundry-nsp mailing list [email protected] http://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/foundry-nsp
