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<font size="-1">Expanding further, there are those that use ansible
for network management. But I don't think it does well in scaling
out for functionality. I have used saltstack for network config
and server builds, as it becomes the source of truth for the
infrastructure, allowing for consistent upgrades and additions.
Combining with something like netbox for infrastructure source of
truth, one can build to spec, and then use something like rancid
as an independent confirmation of 'build to spec'.<br>
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I've been able to script builds to automatically boot a blank
device via pxeboot, get an operating system and customized modules
installed, restarted, automatically registered to receive the
starting configuration, register against a check_mk/nagios based
monitoring system, and for servers, to automatically create and
build containers and their contents. It greatly simplifies the
maintenance and upgrade tasks in to repeatable and reproducible
build solutions. Plus the source of truth configuration files can
be version controlled to provide a history infrastructure
adjustments.<br>
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What I like about saltstack and netbox, is that they are both
based upon python, which is a relatively common skillset and a
growing ecosystem.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/ref/states/">https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/ref/states/</a><br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2019-08-24 6:05 a.m., J. Hellenthal
via NANOG wrote:<br>
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I would have to agree with this too. Unless you are looking at a
multifaceted approach where you can compare two different sources
of knowledge then use the config mgmt tools to cover that baseline
is pretty adequate until....
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<div>You have client computers and hardware along that level to
track. So in that instance since everything has an IP these days
then phpIPAM or similar can do quite the job storing serial
numbers, makes, models, descriptions and tracking the on and
offline status plus plenty more.<br>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The
fact that there's a highway to Hell but only a stairway to
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<div dir="ltr">Do you really want asset management tools, or
configuration management tools with asset discovery /
inventory capability?
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<div>Juniper supports Chef configuration management pretty
extensively, and is widely used for systems management
and patch management on Linux. Scales to multisite
well. There are tie-ins to be able to export monitoring
and alerting tool configurations based on server and
network inventories, etc.</div>
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<div>There are also Puppet, Ansible, and Saltstack in this
product space, slightly less well supported with Juniper
as I understand it (haven't looked extensively, someone
else may have better info).</div>
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<div dir="auto">I am looking for a tool recommendation
for network and server asset management which can
scale in multiple sites and integrate with other
platforms like nagios, librenms. Being able to do
patch management is plus. Mostly linux and juniper
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<div dir="auto">Any recommendations?</div>
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