I love CloudVision configlets for this in Arista land. Best of both worlds.
GUI is a CLI acceleration tool for me. To me it’s like learning to show your work for long division. I can’t remember the last time I did or needed to do long division by hand. I always have some kind of silicon within half a mile of me. But I just checked and I still know how to do it because I practiced hundreds of hours of it in school. I _can_ do everything manually in the CLI. But should I? I’ve got a lot to do….. On Tue, Mar 18, 2025 at 11:38 PM Justin Streiner via NANOG < [email protected]> wrote: > CLI is the way to go, but tools are wonderful for automating repetitive CLI > tasks and ensuring that provisioning/deprovisioning is done consistently is > massively helpful. > > GUIs have their place, as long as they're not web apps that require > client-side Java (Cisco ASDM for example) are just plain evil... > > Thank you > jms > > On Tue, Mar 18, 2025, 10:46 PM Tom Beecher via NANOG < > [email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > > There is also a lot of new gear where just putting a port on a vlan and > > > accepting un-tagged traffic becomes a 10 line config in cli. Who > thought > > > this was a good idea? Yes, I can do it with 10 clicks in the GUI, but > I > > > don't want to, I want to blow a standardized config on it, then just > > make a > > > couple of tweaks. > > > > > > I don't know who needs 10 lines of config for this, but I hear copy paste > > is a viable option for such a need. > > > > On Tue, Mar 18, 2025 at 6:51 PM Shawn L via NANOG <[email protected] > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > "Grew up" on elm and vi (someone please make a gmail addon that > supports > > > VI keys) -- CLI all the way. > > > > > > I will admit (grudgingly) that there are some things that a GUI is more > > > suited for. It can be a lot easier to visualize traffic flows with > > graphs, > > > etc. rather than packet counters. > > > > > > There is also a lot of new gear where just putting a port on a vlan and > > > accepting un-tagged traffic becomes a 10 line config in cli. Who > thought > > > this was a good idea? Yes, I can do it with 10 clicks in the GUI, but > I > > > don't want to, I want to blow a standardized config on it, then just > > make a > > > couple of tweaks. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: "borg--- via NANOG" <[email protected]> > > > Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2025 6:11pm > > > To: [email protected] > > > Cc: [email protected] > > > Subject: [NANOG] Re: The Network CLI -- Love it ? Hate it? Needed? > > > > > > > > > > > > CLI forever ;) But more seriously. CLI is great, its quick, can > > > run on toaster and its easya automated using scripting > > > (generate, replace, preprocess). > > > > > > I like CLI to the point that my docs stuff runs under CLI terminal. > > > The GUI is only used for visualizers. > > > I hope that CLI will stay for a long time... > > > > > > > > > ---------- Original message ---------- > > > > > > From: Mark Prosser via NANOG <[email protected]> > > > To: [email protected] > > > Cc: Mark Prosser <[email protected]> > > > Subject: [NANOG] The Network CLI -- Love it ? Hate it? Needed? > > > Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2025 15:05:33 -0400 > > > > > > Hi NANOG community, > > > > > > I posed this question in several chat groups, but I'd like to get your > > > opinions. > > > > > > Do you love the CLI? Do you hate the CLI? Would you -- or do you > already > > > -- > > > enjoy a world where you never need to touch the CLI, to manage your > > > network? > > > > > > This applies to both provisioning and troubleshooting; to which, you > may > > > have > > > different answers. > > > > > > So far, I've seen a variety of replies around the usual > "should/must/must > > > not/should not". > > > > > > Warm regards, > > > > > > -- > > > Mark Prosser > > > // E: [email protected] > > > // W: https://zealnetworks.ca > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > NANOG mailing list > > > > > > > > > https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/GNZX57LVD4XP2VIZTEQFBRGARHH6DVJC/ > > > _______________________________________________ > > > NANOG mailing list > > > > > > > > > https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/M7MASHV2OR3L764U6KHPZBKG7NELBPVW/ > > > _______________________________________________ > > > NANOG mailing list > > > > > > > > > https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/DXLGLBTJEPXOZF77UVKY7IYCSDTMMU5P/ > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > NANOG mailing list > > > > > https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/5BLI6ZUE7YM7VCHSOO6YGCRK4IFNPTL2/ > _______________________________________________ > NANOG mailing list > > https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/7DQ2VFXWBMVROV2CXNZGROPCQIOGQ2HI/ _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/DX6HGANNRGQP7XPFFNR4HI36S7O7LYCV/
