6 Dec
2011
6 Dec
'11
4:37 p.m.
On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 1:16 PM, George Herbert <george.herbert@gmail.com> wrote:
Everyone I know has either paid through the nose or written one from scratch. No good open source projects that worked out.
Most people couldn't build well from scratch. I have been a couple of places that did, it was man-year of senior grade guy effort range.
And 10-20% (or more) of an FTE in support. New devices need to be onboarded, new OS versions make subtle changes in the code, etc. The upside is that they can be powerful tools to automate mass config changes, and along with config parsing code, they can be powerful tools to standardize networks. Elle Janet Plato