I’ve been thinking about this. I have an heterogenous (i.e. devices from multiple vendors) network and sometimes I want to control certain aspects of it, like add a vlan or restart one of the ports on a switch.
Today I basically ssh into each of the devices I need to configure and update their configuration one by one, whereas if I had something like Unify, I could probably control all my equipment more easily.
Well, I don’t want to buy Unify. What do folks do to control their network equipment if they don’t have a Unify (or similar) solution? Is there a tool out there that would help me with that?
Thanks!
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Ansible is often used for heterogeneous network automation and control for large environments, but for homelab-sized environments, it might be more effort to maintain than just SSHing into your handful of devices.
I know that separate switch manufactures have different control programs/automation for their own devices. Cisco has catalyst center, HP has Aruba Central.
If the switch has SSH access, Ansible maybe?