RE: Network Inventory Tool
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wguisa71 Sent: Monday, August 13, 2007 11:31 PM To: NANOG Subject: Network Inventory Tool Guys, Does anyone known some tool for network documentation with: - inventory (cards, serial numbers, manufactor...) - documentation (configurations, software version control, etc) - topology building (L2, L3.. connections, layer control, ...) All-in-one solution and It don't need to be free. I'm just looking for some thing to control the equipments we have like routers from some sort of suppliers, etc... Marcio Opsware Network Automation System does an excellent job. Not free. It also handles configuration management, software management, compliance, configuration policy management and other needs.
Re: Network Inventory Tool
I would second this. We're evaling it right now, takes a little getting used to but the capabilities are pretty impressive. There is a pretty steep cost to play initially. Once the first chunk of existing devices are licensed adding more isn't as painful, at least thats how I'm selling it within my org. This is far more than an inventory tool, the config management is where it really is impressive. James Fogg wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wguisa71 Sent: Monday, August 13, 2007 11:31 PM To: NANOG Subject: Network Inventory Tool Guys, Does anyone known some tool for network documentation with: - inventory (cards, serial numbers, manufactor...) - documentation (configurations, software version control, etc) - topology building (L2, L3.. connections, layer control, ...) All-in-one solution and It don't need to be free. I'm just looking for some thing to control the equipments we have like routers from some sort of suppliers, etc... Marcio Opsware Network Automation System does an excellent job. Not free. It also handles configuration management, software management, compliance, configuration policy management and other needs.
RE: Network Inventory Tool
Does anyone known some tool for network documentation with: - inventory (cards, serial numbers, manufactor...) - documentation (configurations, software version control, etc) - topology building (L2, L3.. connections, layer control, ...) We've been using a modelling tool called WANDL which does a lot of this. It imports router configs and the output of various show commands to build a network model along with a lot of inventory info. If you give it the geographic coordinates of all your devices (simple script) then it will draw nice topology maps which you can color to show hot circuits. There are tons of reports and reporting options including a number of integrity checks that can show you where you have undefined routemaps or unused ACLS, etc. Although it can do discovery, we don't use that because we are more interested in capacity planning. All the model info is stored in text files so it is relatively easy to tweak it, modify it with scripts to add tags to the maps, and so on. --Michael Dillon
Network Inventory Tool
Guys, Does anyone known some tool for network documentation with: - inventory (cards, serial numbers, manufactor...) - documentation (configurations, software version control, etc) - topology building (L2, L3.. connections, layer control, ...) All-in-one solution and It don't need to be free. I'm just looking for some thing to control the equipments we have like routers from some sort of suppliers, etc... Marcio
Re: Network Inventory Tool
On 13-Aug-2007, at 23:31, Wguisa71 wrote: Does anyone known some tool for network documentation with: - inventory (cards, serial numbers, manufactor...) - documentation (configurations, software version control, etc) - topology building (L2, L3.. connections, layer control, ...) All-in-one solution and It don't need to be free. I'm just looking for some thing to control the equipments we have like routers from some sort of suppliers, etc... If you don't succeed in finding an all-in-one, vendor-neutral solution which does precisely what you want straight out of the box (and don't feel bad if so, since many have failed before you) there are some clues for rolling your own here: http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0210/ppt/stephen.pdf Joe
Re: Network Inventory Tool
Excel or any opensoure version of it seems to do the job just fine for us... And you can massage the data any way you want! -Mike On 8/14/07, Joe Abley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 13-Aug-2007, at 23:31, Wguisa71 wrote: Does anyone known some tool for network documentation with: - inventory (cards, serial numbers, manufactor...) - documentation (configurations, software version control, etc) - topology building (L2, L3.. connections, layer control, ...) All-in-one solution and It don't need to be free. I'm just looking for some thing to control the equipments we have like routers from some sort of suppliers, etc... If you don't succeed in finding an all-in-one, vendor-neutral solution which does precisely what you want straight out of the box (and don't feel bad if so, since many have failed before you) there are some clues for rolling your own here: http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0210/ppt/stephen.pdf Joe
Re: Network Inventory Tool
I have not tried it, but this looks promising. http://metanav.uninett.no/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Administration_Visualized Hope this helps -- Brian Raaen Network Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Monday 13 August 2007 23:31, Wguisa71 wrote: Guys, Does anyone known some tool for network documentation with: - inventory (cards, serial numbers, manufactor...) - documentation (configurations, software version control, etc) - topology building (L2, L3.. connections, layer control, ...) All-in-one solution and It don't need to be free. I'm just looking for some thing to control the equipments we have like routers from some sort of suppliers, etc... Marcio
