Thursday, February 8, 2018

Keeping device hostname/IP synced across management stations

When we deploy a new device in my environment we have to do the following:

  1. Input the device hostname/IP into DNS

  2. Input the device hostname/IP into Solarwinds Orion

  3. Input the device hostname/IP into our AAA server for TACACS/RADIUS authentication

  4. Input the device hostname/IP/other info into our inventory/asset tracking system

That's a lot of places to manually enter information and a lot of room for manual error. As you can imagine, we have cases where the hostname entered in one system doesn't match what's entered in another system, the monitored/managed IP doesn't match across the systems, or the device just isn't entered into one of those systems.

Do you guys have a similar process you have to go through before you deploy a device? Do you have some kind of orchestration system that can do all of this for you?

I've been told that some of these systems can automatically scan the network and get that information. For others, I've been toying the idea of scripting it out but I wanted to hear what others are doing/have been doing.

Thanks



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