David E. Smith wrote:
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...
I haven't actually suggested either. Your stated goal was to do some
basic things to a device that was only available via SSH from a cell
phone. Creating a web-based interface for those basic things doesn't
take a lot of work.
Now if you want to manage your whole network from a cell phone I do
think it would take a lot of work. I also think you are crazy. Some
things shouldn't be managed from a cell phone. You really should just
use a laptop.
In another email you mention that you would want to change BGP or OSPF
configs via a cell phone to fix a broken network. That too is crazy.
Something as important as BGP or OSPF simply shouldn't break on its own.
It should only break when someone is changing a configuration. In that
case, wouldn't the person doing the breaking (or someone else at the
office) be responsible for using their computer to fix it?
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.
I certainly understand your point as we have a variety of radio vendor
equipment with a variety of management interfaces. However, all of them
have SNMP interfaces, which gave us a common way to manage all of our
radios. You really need your own OSS to manage all of your network. We
looked around at smaller successful telecommunication companies and
found that all of them had a good OSS. As such, we decided to do the
same and it has been worth every penny.
-Matt
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