Call me sentimental, but I was using/making my previous staff use rtrmon in the absence of big OSS systems. I believe it's still up at ISC somewhere. I can't remember if it has a "glob all" function. I do remember it would probably be easy enough to integrate. -- Martin Hannigan (c) 617-388-2663 VeriSign, Inc. (w) 703-948-7018 Network Engineer IV Operations & Infrastructure hannigan@verisign.com

-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 1:54 PM To: Ejay Hire Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: Intelligent Automation of network tasks

On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 12:39:25PM -0600, Ejay Hire wrote:

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In my opinion, every network with more than a dozen or so

routers needs

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an automated method to distribute massive configuration changes. There is a lot of fear that something will break during updates, but with some intelligence, that risk can be minimized.

juniper and cisco both support taking machine generated configurations generated by a non-router device (eg: unix host).

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/iosswrel/ps5207/product s_feature_guide09186a00801d1dc2.html

it's not just in 12.3T, it's also in 12.2S.. on your juniper, try something like "config, load override" - jared -- Jared Mauch | pgp key available via finger from jared@puck.nether.net clue++; | http://puck.nether.net/~jared/ My statements are only mine.