From network-automation-owner@greatcircle.com Thu Oct 6 19:17:56 2005 X-Original-To: network-automation@greatcircle.com Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.206]) by mycroft.greatcircle.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA6A132C364 for ; Thu, 6 Oct 2005 19:17:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 68so282226wri for ; Thu, 06 Oct 2005 19:17:51 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=uDH+I5qmJCCpuqy6KKLEo2q6ual1yhmTrmv9epmhp4fD58rQ08xVCb3KBbC/1J+itu6q2FsFINjv0r6cL0q/DQf1AI88FUHrXt6KqaG2+NO8TUJubyvfwob2G12i+xACBVGXypXnjX/X2+0vyK+UQri7gDdvOrqoRPY6BpxkiuY= Received: by 10.54.71.5 with SMTP id t5mr1851634wra; Thu, 06 Oct 2005 19:17:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.123.12 with HTTP; Thu, 6 Oct 2005 19:17:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <7654d9d0510061917i224f78f9j24d32a1d428cdf09@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 12:17:51 +1000 From: Andrew Fort Reply-To: Andrew Fort To: Network Automation List Subject: Activation vendors MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline X-Archive-Number: 200510/1 X-Sequence-Number: 133 So we're looking at various activation vendors at present. There's a lot of snake smelling oil out there :-). Other than Dorado and Metasolv whom else is there out there that does a cross-vendor activation platform? (rather than 'flow-through' + bells-n-whistles). We're just looking for something to abstract the device configuration away, so that we can feed it XML about how to configure the network. Kinda like NETCONF, but for vendors who don't do NETCONF today. (That actually sounds like a great idea, a NETCONF mediation engine). -andrew From network-automation-owner@greatcircle.com Thu Oct 20 16:44:09 2005 X-Original-To: network-automation@greatcircle.com Received: from [66.92.48.19] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mycroft.greatcircle.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 874C332C52B for ; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 16:44:08 -0700 (PDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 16:44:06 -0700 To: network-automation@greatcircle.com From: Brent Chapman Subject: Network Automation BoF scheduled for LISA conf, 8 Dec 05 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Archive-Number: 200510/2 X-Sequence-Number: 134 If you are going to be at the USENIX/SAGE LISA conference in San Diego in early December, I've scheduled a Network Automation BoF (Birds of a Feather session, where folks interested in a particular topic get together to chat about it) for Thursday night, 8 December 2005, 8:00-9:00pm (right after the conference reception). Right now, they've got us scheduled in Garden Salon 1, but that's subject to change, so check the scheduling board at the conference. I hope to see you there! BoF info: Automating Network Configuration & Management Organizer/Moderator: Brent Chapman, Great Circle Associates Thursday, 8 December 2005, 8:00 pm-9:00 pm, Garden Salon 1 What's the state of the art for automated network configuration and management? What systems and tools are available, either freely or commercially? Where are these issues being considered and discussed? Over the last 15 years or so, much of the research in the system administration field has focused on automation. It's now well accepted that a well-run operation doesn't manage 10,000 servers individually, but rather uses tools like cfengine to manage definitions of those servers and then create instances of those servers as needed. In the networking world, though, most of us seem to be still manually configuring (and reconfiguring) every device. Further info: Network Automation BoF http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa05/bofs.html#auto All scheduled BoFs http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa05/bofs.html Conference info http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa05/ -Brent -- Brent Chapman -- Great Circle Associates, Inc. Specializing in network infrastructure for Silicon Valley since 1989 For info about us and our services, please see http://www.greatcircle.com/ Great Circle Waypoints Blog: http://www.greatcircle.com/blog