> (1) is good because your model can be more explicit, less confusing,
> probably easier to automate from; but is bad because you lose the ability
> to do comparisons between different devices/vendors
> (2) is good because you can do across the network
> audits/comparisons/reporting, regardless of device type/vendor, but is bad
> because you end up force-fitting some devices into your model, which
> complicates automation for those devices down the road
(1) would lead to a lot of propriatory management information
for (2) to work you need a good base of standards for many different
applications/devices/network types/layers, defining the management information!
This is easy to achieve for a network of pure IPv4 routers with nothing
else. It is hard to achieve though if the network is truly heterogenous
in the technologies used :(
(Somebody wrote it already, but: of course we need the right mixture of that)
bye,
Gio
Epygi Labs DE GmbH - Georg 'Gio' Magschok
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