[c-nsp] [External] DNA -- How do I justify the expense to mgmt when we'll never use it?

[Drew Weaver]

Yes, we also have our own libraries and tools that manage the switches.

It's sort of funny that Cisco is 15 years late to automation and now they are like "Hey I bet you've never seen this before...." Yawn.

-Drew


-----Original Message-----
From: Hunter Fuller <hf0002 at uah.edu> 
Sent: Wednesday, January 4, 2023 10:49 AM
To: Drew Weaver <drew.weaver at thenap.com>
Cc: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [External] [c-nsp] DNA -- How do I justify the expense to mgmt when we'll never use it?

On Wed, Jan 4, 2023 at 9:46 AM Drew Weaver via cisco-nsp <cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net> wrote:
> Off-list is fine. I know nobody wants to be like "AHhhh it's useless" on a public forum.

Speak for yourself! ;)

I mean, to be fair, it's not *useless*, we just already built up our own, other tooling, that works with other vendors' platforms as well, so, it is not a good fit for us.

My colleague did find DNAC useful to push updates to multiple switches at once. We could have rolled our own for that as well, but we figured, hey, why not give it a shot. It works fine(tm).

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