I grew up on the CLI, as many did, so I am most comfortable there. There have always been downsides when it comes to automation, as screen scraping sucks. Newer things are mitigating that. That being said, at least 20-25% of the CVEs that all the big vendors publish continue to be GUI related, so I will continue to not be using GUIs anytime soon. On Tue, Mar 18, 2025 at 3:06 PM Mark Prosser via NANOG < nanog@lists.nanog.org> wrote:
Hi NANOG community,
I posed this question in several chat groups, but I'd like to get your opinions.
Do you love the CLI? Do you hate the CLI? Would you -- or do you already -- enjoy a world where you never need to touch the CLI, to manage your network?
This applies to both provisioning and troubleshooting; to which, you may have different answers.
So far, I've seen a variety of replies around the usual "should/must/must not/should not".
Warm regards,
-- Mark Prosser // E: mark@zealnetworks.ca // W: https://zealnetworks.ca
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