Chris, Let me add to what David has said well. While Active Directory is Microsoft Directory service and is based on industry standard X.500 and LDAP and Kerboros. It is SNMP that is the only link between your Microsoft and Cisco devices. Therefore, management at best is monitoring the whole network. I think you will find that programs, such as Ciscoworks, are written because of the nature of business. Every manufacture wants his product to be unique. As far as SMS goes, it is capable of detection and monitor any snmp device. The key would be the response to the monitoring. SMS could only notify you at certain alert levels. This may be fine for your purposes.
As final thought, consider your purposes and needs for management. I think that a combination of products is currently your best for full management! Bill Harrison MCSE, CCNP Instructor -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David Armstrong Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 4:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Cisco Devices in MS Active Directory [7:40095] Chris, We've been looking into several network management packages. The answers all seem to be the same. Network management software can find devices via a number of methods but all need the hardware vendor's specific management software to adequately work with each company's devices. In the case of Cisco that would of course be Cisco Works. I don't know yet whether MS's SMS software interfaces with CiscoWorks or not but it would certainly be able to manage it via Active Directory. There are several other companies that have similar software that would integrate with Active Directory as well. Hope that helps some, David Armstrong ""Mann, Chris"" wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Can Cisco routers and switches be managed at all from with Microsoft > Active Directory, or some Active Directory snap-in? I tried looking on CCO > and Microsoft.com but did not see too much on how the two of them interact, > if at all. > > Thanks, > > Chris Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=40113&t=40095 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
