Do you need Network Automation?
I would like to find out details on use cases for network automation, especially in the context of configuration and change management. Please vote and ideally, leave a comment.
View ArticleAre you compliant?
Does your network needs to be compliant with any of the official standards, internal standards only, or none?
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Cisco Config Change Templates for TACACS
Hi,We have just installed Cisco ISE with TACACS capability and want to move all devices off our ACS servers onto the ISE as well as introduce all other devices that didn't use TACACS due to lack of...
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Daily Configuration changes showing certificate changes
On my daily configuration report I get TONS of changes because of certificates like below. I have seen other threads saying to add the following in the comparison criteria. Ignoring hex data^[...
View ArticleBest practices for switch configuration backup retention.
I want to pose a question to other network professionals on Thwack: How long do you retain switch configuration backups stored in NCM? I have noticed our NCM database starting to get a bit sluggish,...
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Solarwinds NCM and Juniper SRX
Hello, I am trying to configure NCM to download a Config from an SRX but am getting the following error in my browser and it stalls on processing (note username removed for security). anyone know why...
View Articleregex for acls
was curious how you all are configuring your regex for acl entires. for example an acl can look like this access-list 1 permit 1.1.1.1access-list 1 permit 2.2.2.0 255.255.255.0access-list 1 remark...
View ArticleNCM Backups not saving in folder
Hi, We have a couple of cisco routers for whom the config backup file is not getting saved in default folder location, The backup however does seem to go into SQL as when i click the backup file from...
View ArticleCisco Config Change Templates for TACACS
Hi,We have just installed Cisco ISE with TACACS capability and want to move all devices off our ACS servers onto the ISE as well as introduce all other devices that didn't use TACACS due to lack of...
View ArticleRemediation Script for ACLs
Hi, I'm trying to create a remediation script to correct ACLs on cisco devices. Updating the ACL is pretty easy, but I need to unapply the ACL first, make the change and reapply. Is there a way to...
View Articleconfig change templates ios upgrade cisco flash
hy, I am trying to make a "generic IOS upgrade" template. there i work with the fallowing script: script BaseChangeTemplate( NCM.Nodes @ContextNode,...
View ArticleCan NCM use TACACS for some nodes and not for others?
We're finally moving to TACACS for all switch access, which is great. To that end, I'm doing some NCM testing on some switches where we've set up TACACS for auth. However, I'm running into a little...
View ArticleRunning vs Startup Config - "certificate self-signed" in Running but not in...
I noticed a high percentage of out of sync running vs startup configs for my Cisco equipment. Upon further investigation I see that it is because the self-signed certificates do not show up in startup...
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Brocade ICX6450 NCM Device Template
I been working on creating a device template and running into a problem not being able to download the starting config or running config by TFTP. I did create two custom config types called...
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Solarwinds NCM and Juniper SRX
Hello, I am trying to configure NCM to download a Config from an SRX but am getting the following error in my browser and it stalls on processing (note username removed for security). anyone know why...
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Saving Changed Configs Only
Hi, NCM is great for saving all of our configs, but it would be nice if NCM would only save configs that were different....meaning if there have been no changes since the last save disregard the...
View ArticleFirmware Vulnerability Reporting
We recently loaded NCM 7.4 with hopes of using the tool to help automate reporting of potential security vulnerabilities in our Cisco IOS devices. While the framework in NCM looks great, the source of...
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Solarwinds NCM and Cisco Vulnerability management - 3 questions.
Hi, We're about to start using solarwinds NCM 7.5.1 for vulnerability management but I have a few questions I'm hoping someone who already uses this can help out with. 1) Is there still an issue with...
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NCM config change template for logging source-interface
I am trying to create a change template that will look at each interface on a node and capture the IP. I then want to take that IP and apply it to a logging source-interface command only if the...
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