Network inventory and configuration tracking tools

Sean Donelan sean at donelan.com
Thu Aug 8 03:09:28 UTC 2002



How about an operations oriented question.  What is the current
preferences amoung network operators for network inventory and
configuration management tools? Not so much status monitoring (up,
down) but other stuff network operator wants to know like circuit
IDs (how many IDs can a circuit have?), network contacts, design layout
reports (layer 1/2/3), what's supposed to be connected to that port?
The stuff you can't get out of the box itself.

Most ISPs seem to end up with a combination of homegrown systems,
opensource, and commercial products.  The commercial "integrated"
systems have lots of stuff, and according to the vendors can do
anything including splice fiber.

CiscoWorks	www.cisco.com
Netcracker	www.netcracker.com
NetView 	www.tivoli.com
Openview	www.hp.com
VitalQIP	www.qip.lucent.com
Visionael	www.visionael.com





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