So what is everyone doing with regards to auto configuration of devices such as Cisco routers?
I'm going to roll my own probably coding something from the ground up if its possible. Its for mostly Cisco kit. I want to avoid having routers and switches sent to the office, configuring them, then shipping them to their destination. Its a big waist of money just to paste a config on. I have two questions really, is anyone doing this already (what software/system are you using to do this, is it open source, paid for?) and how does it work? Often blank Cisco devices say something like "press any key to tftp boot" then they drop into rommon mode. How are these systems/your systems kicking the routers to download an image and configuration? Once the config is on in fact I can upload a new image remotely so its just the config that is really important. I'm talking about shipping routers to on-net locations, CPEs and PEs. The only idea I've had so far is to try and reverse engineer an IOS image to change the default TFTP location to an internal system. Also different devices act differently with regards to that initial configuration process so the system shall have to allow you to choose from a variety of method per device etc. Cheers, James. P.s. I have read up on autonomic networking but that seems some time away as yet, please correct if I'm wrong.
