Managing switches and network devices (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by anywhoever@alien.top to c/homelab@selfhosted.forum

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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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[-] nickjjj@alien.top 2 points 11 months ago

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.

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/network/index.html

[-] unixuser011@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

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?

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