Request for input: ISP tools

Tue Dec 4 14:25:21 UTC 2007

List,

I'm compiling a tutorial (or series thereof) for small-medium ISPs, 
covering the gotchas we've all experienced one way or another.  As I 
build the framework, I'm looking for community input in two categories:

1) Tools - What home-grown tool gave your network operations a great 
leap forward?  I'd appreciate hearing about the concept and the result. 
  Bonus points if it's something you can package and make available, or 
provide a framework for others to build.

2) Requests - What tool do you wish you had?  What lesson have you 
learned, but you haven't managed to automate your way around it?

Please unicast your responses to petelists at templin.org - summaries to be 
found at a NANOG near you*

* in varying definitions of 'near'...

Pete