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Are configuration templates still needed with an automation framework? Or does the automation policy make them a relic of the past? Traditional Configuration Management: Templates We've all been there. We always keep a backup copy of a device's configuration, not just for recovery, but to use as a baseline for configuring…
I am trying to get my network devices to be setup automatically through cisco dna center using templates that depend upon different wan setups and sizes of new locations. To truly automate this I have to find a way to incorporate solarwinds NPM into this process. So the question is: Is there a way to have cisco devices…
Here’s a recent article from Signal magazine discussing innovation in the federal marketplace that I think you’ll find interesting. The need for next-generation networking solutions is intensifying, and for good reason. Modern software-defined networking (SDN) solutions offer better automation and remediation, and stronger…
Hi, Question: We would like to achive vlan mapping where user only have to put his/her mac address of the device and destination vlan to be mapped. We are doing vlan mapping for end user devices and want to execute some commands before we map source vlan to destination vlan with the help of mac address. and we are doing…
Omar Rafik, SolarWinds, Senior Manager, Federal Sales Engineering Here’s an interesting article by my colleague Mav Turner about machine learning and artificial intelligence. These technologies have recently become vogue and Mav does a great job of exploring them and their impacts on federal networking. Machine learning…
Hi I found that thread https://www.reddit.com/r/networking/comments/4wvvmr/enterprise_level_network_orchestration/ I know where NCM is lacking features but ?..500000$ for NSO sounds expensive... Let say NCM has only 80% of those features that about 460000$ discount (for DLX license +implementation) ;-)
Ask a good server engineer where their server configuration is defined and the answer will likely be something similar to In my Puppet manifests. Ask a network administrator the same thing about the network devices and they'll probably look at you in confusion. Likely responses may include: * Uh, the device configuration…
There Can Only Be One I’ve heard repeatedly from people in this industry that what we need is a single interface to our infrastructure. For status monitoring, perhaps that’s best represented by the ubiquitous “Single Pane of Glass” (Drink!); for general network management, perhaps it’s a Manager of Managers (MoM); and for…
The Dream of the Data Center For me, it started with OpenStack. I was at a conference a number of years ago listening to Shannon McFarland talking about using OpenStack to bring programmatic Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) into the data center. My own applications are much more small-scale, but the idea was…
I really want Software Defined Networking (SDN), or something like it, to be the go-to approach for networking, but are we too tied to our idea of what SDN is for us to get there? The Definition Almost ten years ago in 2009, Kate Green coined the term Software-Defined Networking in an article describing the newly-created…
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