Re: Who Is Standardizing Their Network Device Configs?
I don't think any naming convention is unbreakable. We can always make someone's face red with a special combination of building acronyms and room#'s.Perhaps part of the reason we don't use VLan 666......
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Re: Who Is Standardizing Their Network Device Configs?
I've always been an advocate of standardization on all fronts. Not only in the form of 'standard configurations' but also 'configuration standards'. One might be 'we use these commands, in this...
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I create standardized templates for new deployments. I even have one, as a consultant, that has the basics I prefer to configure. No automation right now, but want to look into Ansible. Have heard...
View ArticleWhat is complexity?
Hi dear community, I'm new to this forum but I'm very glad that I found one, which deals especially with the topic network complexity. So, here is my question, which is a very basic one but maybe not...
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Top 10 Flapping Routes resource disappeared???
We have recently installed NPM and NTA. We are currently trying to set up our dashboards correctly and can be 100% sure that we did see a "Top 10 flapping Routes" resource to select as a item on our...
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Top 10 Flapping Routes only appears as an option in Node Details. So if you open up a router node and select Customize Page. You will now be able to select Top 10 Flapping Routes.
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To me the more devices on your network, the more complex it is. Then things like firewall rules make it even more complex again. But there's no reason NPM can't manage it effectively. My network spans...
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Thanks very much Superfly! Totally makes sense.
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Re: What is complexity?
Thank you for your answer superfly! since you mentioned NPM I'm wondering if you only use this software for your network management or also other tools? I'm curious because NPM sounds like it mainly...
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Re: What is complexity?
NPM is used for monitoring. I also have NCM, IPAM, VNQM, NTA and UDT. Which covers everything else for me. Only other programs are a good telnet application and ip subnet calculator.
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Ok, based on the variety of tools/modules that you use I assume that there is nothing like one perfect NMS which fulfills all the management needs of a complex network out of the box! It is rather an...
View ArticleRe: SCP Configuration for archiving Cisco Configs
Bottom right corner of your screen, click on the arrows. (Show hidden icons) Click on the Key for SCP/SFTP configuration.
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I believe Solarwinds comes close to being the perfect NMS. The more complex the network, the more complex your management tool may be. The extra tools I use aren't for monitoring but for management...
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Re: What is complexity?
Ok, so you're doing configuration tasks for routers/firewalls and so an via CLI...wouldn't you consider that inconvenient? I mean if you have a large network with many devices like routers and...
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Re: What is complexity?
NCM can make configuration changes and for bulk changes, I use it. For just poking around or making a small update, I will log onto the device itself. So NCM can do the job without the need of putty etc.
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Channel goes down after failover
Hello to everyone, I am experiencing one issue: I have configured FoE on 2 servers and registry/file are sync.Everything is ok.But problems starts after failover occurs.Secondary server becomes...
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To me the more devices on your network, the more complex it is. Then things like firewall rules make it even more complex again. But there's no reason NPM can't manage it effectively. My network spans...
View ArticleRe: Top 10 Flapping Routes resource disappeared???
Thanks very much Superfly! Totally makes sense.
View ArticleRe: What is complexity?
Thank you for your answer superfly! since you mentioned NPM I'm wondering if you only use this software for your network management or also other tools? I'm curious because NPM sounds like it mainly...
View ArticleRe: What is complexity?
NPM is used for monitoring. I also have NCM, IPAM, VNQM, NTA and UDT. Which covers everything else for me. Only other programs are a good telnet application and ip subnet calculator.
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