Thursday, October 14, 2021

Cisco CNA alternative for GUI control of Cisco stuff?

I have a client who's staff are stubborn, afraid of CLI, and willing to spend money to stay that way.

Against my advice, they've used the Cisco Networking Assistant (CNA) tool for many years to perform simple switch control tasks like bouncing ports, assigning VLANs, changing ACLs, and doing ad-hoc backups.

Now that CNA's officially dead, they're looking for something else and willing to pay for it.

They've looked at SolarWinds, ManageEngine OpsManager, and Cisco DNA, but these tools are primarily for monitoring and don't do much (if anything) for providing GUI-based switch port control like I described above. Some of what they want to do could probably be automated with these tools and SNMP, but we don't want to allow SNMP write.

So, they basically want the Ubiquiti Unifi or Meraki dashboard GUI experience for their enterprise Cisco stuff.

Can anyone suggest alternative tools to look at?



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