Back Up & Manage Network Configs With This Free Desktop Tool
John Stubbings
http://www.solarwinds.com/products/freetools/kiwi_cattools/
"Back Up & Manage Network Configs With This Free Desktop Tool
Free Kiwi CatTools enables you to backup and manage network configurations
right from your desktop! With Free Kiwi CatTools, you can quickly schedule
batch jobs and implement bulk configuration changes across routers,
switches, and firewalls. Plus, Free Kiwi CatTools can notify you of
configuration changes via email and generate basic reports.
With Free Kiwi CatTools, you can manage up to five devices and perform up
to five out-of-the-box “activities,” such as backing up the running configs
on your network devices or sending commands directly to your network
devices in normal or privileged mode. If five isn’t enough, check out the
licensed version of Kiwi CatTools.
Free Kiwi CatTools enables you to:
Manage configurations from your desktop for up to five network devices,
including routers, switches and firewalls
Schedule configuration backups and changes
Generate network device configuration reports, such as port, MAC, ARP and
version details
Automatically receive email notifications about configuration changes
Compare startup and running configurations of network devices "
Looks interesting, I might test this one, but if it doesn't have an API
that works with Lastpass...
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Gabriele Neukam
On this special day, John Stubbings wrote:
> With Free Kiwi CatTools, you can manage up to five devices and perform up
> to five out-of-the-box “activities,” such as backing up the running configs
> on your network devices or sending commands directly to your network
> devices in normal or privileged mode. If five isn’t enough, check out the
> licensed version of Kiwi CatTools.
I have two PCs directly attached to my router (an older and a current
machine), there is a NAS, and a third PC (my mother's) is connected via
WLAN. If I hook up a laptop, it won't be catalogued by this software
any more, because the router of course is a network device like any
other.
No thanks.
Gabriele Neukam
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John Stubbings
> On this special day, John Stubbings wrote:
>
>> With Free Kiwi CatTools, you can manage up to five devices and perform up
>> to five out-of-the-box “activities,” such as backing up the running configs
>> on your network devices or sending commands directly to your network
>> devices in normal or privileged mode. If five isn’t enough, check out the
>> licensed version of Kiwi CatTools.
>
>
> I have two PCs directly attached to my router (an older and a current
> machine), there is a NAS, and a third PC (my mother's) is connected via
> WLAN. If I hook up a laptop, it won't be catalogued by this software
> any more, because the router of course is a network device like any
> other.
>
> No thanks.
>
>
Gabriele, I don't know what you're on about.
This looks like a professional tool to back up configs of router and
switches and firewalls in kinda the Cisco class. It compares running and
startup configs and bollox like that.
This may have been a hint
> With Free Kiwi CatTools, you can quickly schedule
> batch jobs and implement bulk configuration changes across routers,
> switches, and firewalls. Plus, Free Kiwi CatTools can notify you of
> configuration changes via email and generate basic reports.
Gabriele Neukam
On this special day, John Stubbings wrote:
> Gabriele, I don't know what you're on about.
>
> This looks like a professional tool to back up configs of router and
> switches and firewalls in kinda the Cisco class.
It is meant for a larger environment and big enterprises, no doubt.
But -
this group is a FREEware group in the most specific sense of the word
FREE to use whatsoever, under *no* comditions. So, if this program is
actually meant for large enterprises, it obviously is of little use for
them in this "freeware" version, and as a consequence forces them to
****pay**** for it.
According to the ACF rules, this program/toolset is not really
freeware, but by definition crippleware, and as such off topic.
see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crippleware as an explanation.
And there *are* free tools out there, if you enter the topic "network
inventory" into the search field on the site www.sourceforge.net.
The first page of the result lists at least four entries about
programs/services that do what you are offering, in a larger or smaller
scale, so I leave the exercise to the reader instead of just repeating
them here as a "human interface".
Gabriele Neukam
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John Stubbings
> On this special day, John Stubbings wrote:
>
>> Gabriele, I don't know what you're on about.
>>
>> This looks like a professional tool to back up configs of router and
>> switches and firewalls in kinda the Cisco class.
>
> It is meant for a larger environment and big enterprises, no doubt.
>
> But -
>
> this group is a FREEware group in the most specific sense of the word
> FREE to use whatsoever, under *no* comditions. So, if this program is
> actually meant for large enterprises, it obviously is of little use for
> them in this "freeware" version, and as a consequence forces them to
> ****pay**** for it.
Listen diddums, YMMV, I don't care. There are medium sized businesses with
less than 5 devices of this class, and many small.
I ain't even tested it yet myself.
Don't want to use it. I don't care.
> According to the ACF rules, this program/toolset is not really
> freeware, but by definition crippleware, and as such off topic.
Rules?
> see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crippleware as an explanation.
>
> And there *are* free tools out there, if you enter the topic "network
> inventory" into the search field on the site www.sourceforge.net.
What has this to do with 'network inventory'?
You don't even understand what this does.
John Stubbings
> Back Up & Manage Network Configs With This Free Desktop Tool
OK, I've just been playing with this with a Cisco Wireless Device.
It's quite good. Built in support for a host of different managed devices
not just Cisco and probably will support most devices you can telnet or ssh
into, in some way.
You can logon automatically and do stuff to network devices, send yourself
emails with the results, all sorts. Use your imagination.
I've got some uses for this. Thanks for recommending it John.
You're welcome John, glad to be of service.
What a nice chap.
Thomas Stevens
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John Stubbings wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 17:21:39 +0000, John Stubbings wrote:
>
>> Back Up & Manage Network Configs With This Free Desktop Tool
>
> OK, I've just been playing with this with a Cisco Wireless Device.
>
> It's quite good. Built in support for a host of different managed devices
> not just Cisco and probably will support most devices you can telnet or ssh
> into, in some way.
>
> You can logon automatically and do stuff to network devices, send yourself
> emails with the results, all sorts. Use your imagination.
>
> I've got some uses for this. Thanks for recommending it John.
>
> You're welcome John, glad to be of service.
>
> What a nice chap.
>
Having a conversation with yourself, that's definitely a sign of madness.
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> John Stubbings wrote:
>> On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 17:21:39 +0000, John Stubbings wrote:
>>
>>> Back Up & Manage Network Configs With This Free Desktop Tool
>>
>> OK, I've just been playing with this with a Cisco Wireless Device.
>>
>> It's quite good. Built in support for a host of different managed
>> devices not just Cisco and probably will support most devices you
>> can telnet or ssh into, in some way.
>>
>> You can logon automatically and do stuff to network devices, send
>> yourself emails with the results, all sorts. Use your imagination.
>>
>> I've got some uses for this. Thanks for recommending it John.
>>
>> You're welcome John, glad to be of service.
>>
>> What a nice chap.
>>
>
> Having no conversation with yourself, that's definitely a sign of
> madness.
>
Having a conversation with yourself, that's definitely a sign of
madness.
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