[cisco-voip] alternatives to Uplinx?

[Lelio Fulgenzi]

Backup and Change tool.

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On Nov 11, 2016, at 11:11 PM, Anthony Holloway <avholloway+cisco-voip at gmail.com<mailto:avholloway+cisco-voip at gmail.com>> wrote:

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<mailto: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<mailto:avholloway at gmail.com> <avholloway at gmail.com<mailto:avholloway at gmail.com>> on behalf of Anthony Holloway <avholloway+cisco-voip at gmail.com<mailto:avholloway%2Bcisco-voip at gmail.com>>
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To: Lelio Fulgenzi
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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<mailto:lelio at uoguelph.ca>> wrote:


I'm liking what I see with Uplinx. Are there others out there?


Lelio



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