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If you are looking for a self-host version, Oxidized (
https://github.com/ytti/oxidized) works great. Its mainly focused on just
network backup however, but you can customize to your liking.

Regards,
Colten Lange

On Wed, Apr 3, 2024 at 4:20?PM Shahid Shafi <sshafi@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Network Experts,
>
> Is anyone using Unimus as your main NCM tool in production? I am looking
> at an NCM tool that can scale upto 10,000 to 15,000 Network Devices. Do you
> recommend any other solution? The solution should atleast able to support
> network config backups, diffs, and basic network auditing features.
>
> https://unimus.net/
>
> thanks
> Shahid
>

We use it for that. It's pretty darn nice to use most days. We are nowhere that scale though, but I know the owner. He has some customers with far larger deployments as far as I understand.

Very responsive and they are pretty sharp cookies. Price is also good.



On Apr 3, 2024 16:22, Shahid Shafi <sshafi@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Network Experts,

Is anyone using Unimus as your main NCM tool in production? I am looking at an NCM tool that can scale upto 10,000 to 15,000 Network Devices. Do you recommend any other solution? The solution should atleast able to support network config backups, diffs, and basic network auditing features.

https://unimus.net/

thanks
Shahid

I use it for config backups, diffs, etc. Love it.

Theres others such as Rancid but im not sure if it works on anything other than Vendor C.

-Mike

> On Apr 3, 2024, at 23:16, Shahid Shafi <sshafi@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> ?
> Hi Network Experts,
>
> Is anyone using Unimus as your main NCM tool in production? I am looking at an NCM tool that can scale upto 10,000 to 15,000 Network Devices. Do you recommend any other solution? The solution should atleast able to support network config backups, diffs, and basic network auditing features.
>
> https://unimus.net/
>
> thanks
> Shahid

We use both Unumus and ManageEngine. Neither covers all device models, or all firmware versions of all devices, so we have to use both products to get complete device coverage. Scaling depends on host performance, so for large device populations you may want to assign different SCM instances to particular subgroups.

-mel via cell

On Apr 3, 2024, at 11:28?PM, Mike Lyon <mike.lyon@gmail.com> wrote:

?
I use it for config backups, diffs, etc. Love it.

Theres others such as Rancid but im not sure if it works on anything other than Vendor C.

-Mike

On Apr 3, 2024, at 23:16, Shahid Shafi <sshafi@gmail.com> wrote:

?
Hi Network Experts,

Is anyone using Unimus as your main NCM tool in production? I am looking at an NCM tool that can scale upto 10,000 to 15,000 Network Devices. Do you recommend any other solution? The solution should atleast able to support network config backups, diffs, and basic network auditing features.

https://unimus.net/

thanks
Shahid

On 4/4/24 08:25, Mike Lyon wrote:

> I use it for config backups, diffs, etc. Love it.
>
> Theres others such as Rancid but im not sure if it works on anything
> other than Vendor C.

RANCID works perfectly for Cisco, Juniper, Arista, Brocade (Foundry) and HP.

They are also known to support other obscure vendors.

Mark.

On 04.04.2024 09:06, Mark Tinka wrote:
> RANCID works perfectly for Cisco, Juniper, Arista, Brocade (Foundry) and
> HP.
>
> They are also known to support other obscure vendors.

Can confirm for Cisco.

We use it for ECI (now Ribbon) gear as well, just with our local
modifications. We copied the Juniper scripts and modified them to not
set some CLI states and to adapt the commands that are run. It's not
that complicated to modify.

Joel Busch
AS559 SWITCH

Unimus is very open to adding additional platforms and improving support for existing platforms. I'd reach out to them for assistance.




-----
Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions

Midwest Internet Exchange

The Brothers WISP

----- Original Message -----

From: "Mel Beckman" <mel@beckman.org>
To: "Mike Lyon" <mike.lyon@gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog" <nanog@nanog.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 4, 2024 1:49:31 AM
Subject: Re: Unimus as NCM (Network Configuration Management) Tool

We use both Unumus and ManageEngine. Neither covers all device models, or all firmware versions of all devices, so we have to use both products to get complete device coverage. Scaling depends on host performance, so for large device populations you may want to assign different SCM instances to particular subgroups.


-mel via cell



On Apr 3, 2024, at 11:28 PM, Mike Lyon <mike.lyon@gmail.com> wrote:




<blockquote>



I use it for config backups, diffs, etc. Love it.


Theres others such as Rancid but im not sure if it works on anything other than Vendor C.


-Mike


<blockquote>
On Apr 3, 2024, at 23:16, Shahid Shafi <sshafi@gmail.com> wrote:


</blockquote>

<blockquote>


Hi Network Experts,


Is anyone using Unimus as your main NCM tool in production? I am looking at an NCM tool that can scale upto 10,000 to 15,000 Network Devices. Do you recommend any other solution? The solution should atleast able to support network config backups, diffs, and basic network auditing features.


https://unimus.net/



thanks
Shahid
</blockquote>

</blockquote>

For backup and version control (e.g., git), I use Oxidize. It supports
a bunch of different vendors, so long as there is a CLI. Writing scripts
for new vendors is very simple.

Oxidized can run on its own or get fed by something like LibreNMS so as
you add devices for monitoring, Oxidize will pick up the new devices.
Very handy to track changes that get pushed out. And track down who did
what to screw up your network.

Tim

On 4/4/24 5:59 AM, Mike Hammett wrote:
> Unimus is very open to adding additional platforms and improving support
> for existing platforms. I'd reach out to them for assistance.
>
>
>
> -----
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> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From: *"Mel Beckman" <mel@beckman.org>
> *To: *"Mike Lyon" <mike.lyon@gmail.com>
> *Cc: *"nanog" <nanog@nanog.org>
> *Sent: *Thursday, April 4, 2024 1:49:31 AM
> *Subject: *Re: Unimus as NCM (Network Configuration Management) Tool
>
> We use both Unumus and ManageEngine. Neither covers all device models,
> or all firmware versions of all devices, so we have to use both products
> to get complete device coverage. Scaling depends on host performance, so
> for large device populations you may want to assign different SCM
> instances to particular subgroups.
>
> -mel via cell
>
> On Apr 3, 2024, at 11:28?PM, Mike Lyon <mike.lyon@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> ?
> I use it for config backups, diffs, etc. Love it.
>
> Theres others such as Rancid but im not sure if it works on anything
> other than Vendor C.
>
> -Mike
>
> On Apr 3, 2024, at 23:16, Shahid Shafi <sshafi@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> ?
> Hi Network Experts,
>
> Is anyone using Unimus as your main NCM tool in production? I am
> looking at an NCM tool that can scale upto 10,000 to 15,000
> Network Devices. Do you recommend any other solution? The
> solution should atleast able to support network config backups,
> diffs, and basic network auditing features.
>
> https://unimus.net/ <https://unimus.net/>
>
> thanks
> Shahid
>
>

We've used Unimus exclusively since 2018. It's absolutely wonderful for
NCM.

On Wed, Apr 3, 2024 at 5:20?PM Shahid Shafi <sshafi@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Network Experts,
>
> Is anyone using Unimus as your main NCM tool in production? I am looking
> at an NCM tool that can scale upto 10,000 to 15,000 Network Devices. Do you
> recommend any other solution? The solution should atleast able to support
> network config backups, diffs, and basic network auditing features.
>
> https://unimus.net/
>
> thanks
> Shahid
>

> On Apr 4, 2024, at 2:06 AM, Mark Tinka <mark@tinka.africa> wrote:
> On 4/4/24 08:25, Mike Lyon wrote:
>
>> I use it for config backups, diffs, etc. Love it.
>>
>> Theres others such as Rancid but im not sure if it works on anything other than Vendor C.
>
> RANCID works perfectly for Cisco, Juniper, Arista, Brocade (Foundry) and HP.

Also works well for Dell S series switches. I use it on S4128s and S4048s.