Lovelace建议网络配置管理

Lovelace，来自电影“快乐的英尺”，是一个摇滚者企鹅，以及来自Adélie土地的自称先知，他们认为他有能力和性吸引力。他为Adélies一块鹅卵石收费以换取他的预言。Lovelace显示出“神圣的护身符”（塑料六包戒指，用于将饮料罐头夹在一起）。这变得可爱的毁灭，因为戒指变得如此紧张，他可以勉强呼吸。在一个废弃的捕鲸过程植物附近，“护身符”在他的脖子上捕获了脖子上，这是一个垃圾的废弃物，后来被纯机会从他的脖子上撕裂。在这个博客中，Lovelace，用作车辆提供建议。Lovelace很便宜，因为他所需要的只是一个虚拟的鹅卵石，成为他喜欢开源的企鹅。所以这是鹅卵石和问题是，“什么是网络问题管理的最佳工具？”现在，Lovelace曾经被用作捕鲸厂的网络管理员，并了解网络的一两件事。真正的答案，州lovelace，不是在管理问题，因为那时鸡蛋击中了冰。 A reactive tool set exists for managing problems but it is not the best. The question is around the BEST! The best is the proactive tool set. The search for this tool lies elsewhere in the field of configuration management. The fundamental root cause of the majority of network problems is inadequate configuration management. Lets explain. A large number of the causes of can be narrowed down to component failure, misconfigurations, carrier and service provider faults. All these trace a root cause back to inadequate configuration management. Component failure is usually old equipment that has failed and the configuration is not recorded and its warranty and maintenance schedule is not known. Misconfigurations occur as techies don't document or record interrelationships. Carrier and service provider faults result from vendor management issues of agreements being unclear or not recorded. This scope of the issue is beyond that of the telnet jockey and "fly by the seat of your pants" problem management. Commercial vendors who sell expensive framework products need to hang their heads in shame. Their products are pretty much weak and damn difficult to implement. The cost is disproportionately high and the value limited. It seems that many have jumped onto the service management bandwagon and have renamed their product set to somehow fit into the ITIL terminology. They might be a different colour of dog, a different breed of dog, but they all still remain dogs. The commercial network management products are nothing more than Lovelace's "talisman" around his neck, squeezing and sucking the existence out of him. Hopefully, reading this blog is that pure chance for you to escape as well. So front and centre, the answer lies in a little know open source tool named NEDI (http://www.nedi.ch/). NEDI, which stands for Network Discovery, has finally had its 1.0 (RC4)release on 24th October, 2007. It has been slow progress over the years through all the 0.x releases. But it has been worth it as it is the BEST tool. The concept is simple. It starts around providing a means to manage the configurations of your networks and supplies the tools to automate the discovery. The output forms the basis of any network documentation and by default is a source of doing root cause analysis. When outages occur the tool is crucial in working out what has changed. And when it comes to budgeting, capacity management and all those service delivery aspects, it again steps up to the plate. As a proactive tool it is highly recommended. And finally, you can use it with UBuntu (http://www.ubuntu.com/) The best open source operating system by far, but that is for another blog.