On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 11:19 AM, Keegan Holley <keegan.holley@sungard.com> wrote:
It was more curiosity. I'm looking in to scripting and starting to get tired of having to account for ssh/telnet, credentials, differences in
'write a library'... someone once said.
platforms and code from the same vendor and my various failed attempts to do all of the above. Most of the automation suites I've seen work via logins, rancid,HP NA etc etc. Although there are better programmers that can and have made it work it still seems cumbersome to me. I've pretty much made the
it is, somewhat, yes.
assumption that writable SNMP was a bad idea but have never actually tried it. I was curious what others were using, netconf or just scripted logins. I'm also fighting a losing battle to convince people that netconf isn't evil. It strikes me as odd that if I wanted to talk to a database/website full of credit card and billing info there's a long list of API's I could use, but if I wanted to talk to the router or firewall in front of it I can only use ssh or telnet.
sad, right? there are millions of restful program writers, only a few thousand network device programmers, and the vast majority of 'network management' is done by people perfectly happy with 'cisco-works' :(