[VoiceOps] [LIKELY JUNK] Acme: EMS or CLI?

[anorexicpoodle]

Have you looked at all into the ACP-XML api? I have an old doc from 4.1
on it but haven't seen much since. Seems like it would be a great way to
integrate larger scale Acme provisioning and management with a home
grown system. 


On Sat, 2009-09-12 at 19:10 -0700, David Hiers wrote:

> Acme is a victim of their own success on this one.  It's so easy to
> manage the SDs over the CLI for a handful of boxes, and it plugs into
> our overall monitoring strategy so well that I've never thought of
> what I'm missing with the EMS.  Size matters, so if we had a oodles of
> them it might be a different story.
> 
> Along these lines, has anyone ever cooked up a decent perl module to
> work with the selecting and such needed to modify the config?  It'd be
> pretty sweet to can some module that can work with their CLI paradigm
> as well as expect or net::telnet.
> 
> David
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Brandon Buckner <BrandonB at netins.com> wrote:
> > We only use CLI. The only thing I can see that may be useful is the Fault
> > and Performance management. And that is if you don’t already have something
> > in place that reads SNMP traps, syslog, or something like MRTG. What I’ve
> > found is that we have to do very little tweaking of the default settings for
> > the various configuration elements. Once you create it and get it working,
> > you generally leave it be and just add new and nearly identical items every
> > so often. For instance: new SIP trunking customers. The “core” side pretty
> > much never changes unless we’re demoing equipment adding new equipment. I’ve
> > never felt like I’m missing out and all our other equipment runs largely off
> > GUI.
> >
> >
> >
> > ----
> > Brandon Buckner
> > Switching Technician / VoIP Admin
> > Iowa Network Services
> > brandonb at netins.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> >
> > From: voiceops-bounces at voiceops.org [mailto:voiceops-bounces at voiceops.org]
> > On Behalf Of Scott Berkman
> > Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 5:12 PM
> > To: voiceops at voiceops.org
> > Subject: [LIKELY JUNK][VoiceOps] Acme: EMS or CLI?
> >
> >
> >
> > So for all the Acme users out there, is the huge cost for the EMS worth it
> > to you?
> >
> >
> >
> > How many people use CLI vs EMS for their day to day actions?  Some things
> > lend more towards CLI (linux, cisco, asterisk) and some things just lend
> > more towards GUI (Metaswitch, Broadsoft, Sonus Insight).
> >
> >
> >
> >                 -Scott
> >
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