[cisco-voip] alternatives to Uplinx?

Anthony Holloway avholloway+cisco-voip at gmail.com
Fri Nov 11 23:11:24 EST 2016


Are you talking about the Uplinx Reporting tool
<https://www.uplinx.com/reporttool/> or the Backup and Change History
<https://www.uplinx.com/configuration-tracking/> tool?

On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 1:26 PM, Lelio Fulgenzi <lelio at uoguelph.ca> wrote:

>
> Thanks Anthony - I do like what I see, I just wanted to know if there were
> others out there. It's always good to compare products.
>
>
> The biggest thing I'd like to get out of the tool is to understand the
> changes made between reports and by sifting through the audit logs, who's
> the likely culprit.
>
>
> I'm not clear on why Cisco has decided not to implement some sort of
> detailed audit logging which records who made what changes and when, not
> just who accessed a certain web page. With enough forethought and planning,
> you could build an "undo" function. Granted, you'd likely have to undo a
> set of actions, but it's better than nothing.
>
>
> Lelio
>
>
>
>
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> *From:* avholloway at gmail.com <avholloway at gmail.com> on behalf of Anthony
> Holloway <avholloway+cisco-voip at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Thursday, November 10, 2016 11:30 AM
> *To:* Lelio Fulgenzi
> *Cc:* voyp list, cisco-voip
> *Subject:* Re: [cisco-voip] alternatives to Uplinx?
>
> That was a strange way to word the email.  You like what you see, but you
> want an alternative?
>
> I have an aversion to using an Uplinx report for an as-built, as it
> doesn't enable you to see the forest for the trees.  Just running SELECT *
> FROM numplan WHERE tkpatternusage = 3, and cramming all Translation
> Patterns into 90 pages of an MS Word document, is not exactly an as-built.
>
> That's more a problem of the usage of the tool, and not the tool itself.
> In fact, the tool seems to be built really well, and it's very
> customizable. Oh, and I do like how it provides explanations for each
> section of the report.
>
> What is the problem you're looking to solve with Uplinx or another similar
> tool?
>
> On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 2:25 PM, Lelio Fulgenzi <lelio at uoguelph.ca> wrote:
>
>>
>> I'm liking what I see with Uplinx. Are there others out there?
>>
>>
>> Lelio
>>
>>
>>
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>> Lelio Fulgenzi, B.A.
>> Senior Analyst, Network Infrastructure
>> Computing and Communications Services (CCS)
>> University of Guelph
>>
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>> lelio at uoguelph.ca
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