On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Job Snijders < job.snijders@hibernianetworks.com> wrote:
Dear all, I am unsure what we as networkers have done in the past, but I am sure we've done our fair share of atonement and don't have to keep using RANCID.
Does the nature of the codebase and future development matter all that much? Not to dismiss it as a factor, but I think other criteria should be more important :) Nrmally when I would want to compare software ---- I would be concerned first and foremost, (1) What does it do/what makes it unique -- is something special about package X over package Y?; (2) Does it meet all the minimum needs I have right now to be a viable solution? Does it grab all my configs and put them in a permanent revision control system? :) (3) How reliable is it, can I trust it? Is it very secure and safe to use? It's no good if it breaks, fails, or does something dangerous. How much care and feeding will it need to keep working? If it needs complex repair work every few weeks, I don't like it. (4) How easy is it to get up and running, and to perform any required ongoing maintenance (5) What extra nice to have functionality does it have? (6) Maybe other stuff like what language its written in, if extra features need to be added -- -JH