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!