Hi Dave,
Take a look at Network Configurator from Netsation (www.netsation.com). I is pretty interesting.
Paul Quinn, CCIE MCI Systemhouse
Is this what MCI uses to construct and manage their entire IP network? I'm looking for a tool to do configuration management, too. But I need one with the following: 1. Knows how to configure Cisco/IOS 2. Knows how to configure Ascend/MAX and Ascend/GRF/gated 3. Configures lots of other things, too: a. Radius for all Ascend and Livinston servers (MAX, PM) b. All users in all POP servers for all domains we serve c. Mail forwarders d. Web sites, whether domain, subdirectory, or userid based e. Shell accounts If, for example, one user is set up with a variety of access services, and I disable or delete that user, then it should be removed from all places where it is configured without me having to know. Yes, I do combine my network operations and server operations together and I want a package that allows me to fully integrate it all together without having to have separate packages. Writing this myself will be a big project. Well, big for one person. It wouldn't be that big for a software development business that is banking on selling it to a lot of providers. But is there even a market for this? One thing I note about Netsation's product is that they promote it as a tool to deal with "cryptic IOS commands". IOS is _NOT_ cryptic. Anyone who thinks it is after proper training shouldn't be in the technical end of this business. OTOH, that comes from a quote from PC Week magazine, and I'm not surprised they find it cryptic. Where such a product is useful is managing the huge complexity of a large network, and in the case of what I am looking for, all of the other services as well. -- Phil Howard | stop4ads@noplace8.com eat3this@no8place.net end3ads7@anyplace.net phil | crash466@s9p7a2m3.org blow4me5@dumb7ads.edu stop8it9@spammer2.edu at | w1x8y0z8@lame5ads.org die5spam@spam1mer.com die9spam@no4place.com milepost | a5b7c6d5@anyplace.edu suck7it2@dumb6ads.net no15ads7@no0where.org dot | stop4ads@anywhere.edu stop8it7@spam4mer.net eat07me9@no2where.com com | stop2it9@dumb2ads.com eat5this@lame2ads.org stop3340@dumbads4.org