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February 20, 2008
Cool Utility of the Week: ZipTie
Many of you know about Kiwi Software. They are one of my favorite vendors who makes very reasonably priced utilities to manage many aspects of your Cisco network. For years, I've been using their Kiwi CatTools product for configuration management & bulk changes...
...but now the open source community is creeping in: Welcome ZipTie! ZipTie is a project that essentially competes with Kiwi CatTools in a Freeware/Open Source version. Now, I've already purchased Kiwi CatTools and love it...so what makes me excited about ZipTie? The Future!!! If you take a look at the roadmap, they've got more and more features planned to integrate
Not to mention that Open Source projects typically move faster than corporate environments since just about anyone can write plug-ins for the system. As a matter of fact, ZipTie already has a "partner site" (www.zipforge.org) dedicated to add-ons and plug-ins for different features and equipment. ZipTie currently has a quarterly release schedule, so I'm very excited to see how things progress this year.
Product Site: www.ziptie.org
Posted by JC at February 20, 2008 10:00 AM
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I am glad you mentioned ZipTie. We use it at Weber State University to discover our network devices, back them up, and to perform bulk changes.
ZipTie works great; it supports many different device vendors and it runs on Windows, Mac and Linux.
Keep you eye on this project, it is moving fast!
Posted by: Tristan Rhodes at February 20, 2008 2:32 PM
Ive used quite a few of these in the past including lithium from lithiumcorp amongst others. I am mostly interested in the monitoring part of such an application. This is why after trying custom solutions , corporate solutions , open source solutions and more I ended up with Zenoss Core
Posted by: Mario A. Spinthiras at February 21, 2008 6:15 AM