OSP Management

Wed Nov 1 13:04:14 UTC 2023

We used to have an FTE for ArcGIS. We got by pretty well until we needed to
document circuits down to the NIC level, and then we lost that FTE
altogether. PatchManager was chosen from an RFP for its granularity and
(seeming) user-friendliness.

michael brooks
Sr. Network Engineer
Adams 12 Five Star Schools
michael.brooks at adams12.org
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"flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss"

On Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 4:29 PM Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuhnke at gmail.com> wrote:

> On that topic, I find it interesting to see how different medium/regional
> scale ISPs have developed their own in-house GIS systems, once they reach
> the size and scale where one FTE staff position to run GIS systems/database
> backend is a necessity.
>
> There is a great deal that can be done with QGIS and entirely GPL/BSD
> licensed software, if your GIS person has a background in this sort of
> thing.
>
> Privately hosting a intranet-based tile-server for openstreetmap data and
> overlaying your own network on top of it is not extremely difficult.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 6:27 AM michael brooks - ESC <
> michael.brooks at adams12.org> wrote:
>
>> On that note, what do you all use for managing OSP? We have been
>> attempting to stand up PatchManager for quite some time, and find it a good
>> product, but the billions of options can be overwhelming....
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> michael brooks
>> Sr. Network Engineer
>> Adams 12 Five Star Schools
>> michael.brooks at adams12.org
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>> "flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss"
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 5:54 AM Mike Hammett <nanog at ics-il.net> wrote:
>>
>>>  Always fun managing OSP.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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