Matt Liotta wrote:
It would appear you are making incorrect assumptions. Why would it cost
a lot of money? A programmer can be hired on the cheap and the amount of
work you need is small. If it cost you more than a few hundred dollars
you are over paying.
The original assumption was that "replacing my whole network" was where
you were going with your statement, and I apologize for that
misinterpretation. Not that your actual suggestion of "write a bunch of
Web interfaces" is that much better...
(ooh, it's some off-topic bait! looks yummy!)
Something that can remotely log into an SSH system, screen-scrape, let
me edit its configuration files (which are all in a weird proprietary
text editor), and basically replicate everything you can do with SSH?
That's more than a few hours' work. (At least it would be for me, but my
programming experience is more Web-focused than working with
terminal/curses stuff.)
Oh, and multiply that by several times, as I have several different
systems for which I'd need similar interfaces. I'd need one for Trango
(yes, they have a built-in Web interface but it stinks out loud),
Alvarion (BreezeConfig is nice, but it's Windows-only), Mikrotik
RouterOS (the Web interface is okay but there's a lot of stuff you can't
easily do with it), and so on and so on.
Meanwhile, all of these things already have a nice way of twiddling
their knobs remotely: their respective telnet and SSH interfaces.
I respect that you're trying to make other suggestions, and I appreciate
it. This particular idea, however, is a bit of a non-starter.
David Smith
MVN.net
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