Heh, heh... and so my past comes back to haunt me... On the network equipment side, it depends strongly on the vendor... Juniper and Cisco are phenomenally cli centric, checkpoint is still practically unusable from the command line. On the management side, however, its a much, much thinner field than it was five years ago. Let's see... NetCool has displaced a lot of HP Openview and is more cli-centric, but both of them are all about monitoring. Voyence is firmly in GUI-land, so are Rendition and Alterpoint. Tripwire is leading the CLI charge, although I have to give the folks at Rendition partial credit for CLI, because they got a writeup for it in the Network World competitive review two months ago. Hi, ocicat. Also, when I talked to him last, their CEO mentioned that it was one of the things that their customers was telling them was important. Anyway, I do find it interesting to note that while every single one of them ships a gui interface, all but one of the current crop ship an extremely cli centric gui - Network World also made a a fair bit of hay about each network control product's scripting capabilities.
As an aside, Tony and Will both landed at Voyence. I talked about going to Rendition for a little while, but went to Tellme instead.
So if the question is 'will they ship a product without a gui interface,' I clearly lose without further inspection. If the question is 'will they ship a product with a thin gui veneer to get you to the underlying device clis,' then I clearly win - none of the vendors is building their tools based on anything other than driving the device cli. And of course, the primary piece of non-commercial software that is in use, possibly by more users than all of the commercial platforms combined, has no gui elements at all. Although that particular effort seems to suffer from a belief that its better to name a tool so that no VP or CIO will ever approve someone spending time on it, just because of the name.
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On the network equipment side, it depends strongly on the vendor... Juniper and Cisco are phenomenally cli centric, checkpoint is still practically unusable from the command line. On the management side, however, its a much, much thinner field than it was five years ago. Let's see... NetCool has displaced a lot of HP Openview and is more cli-centric, but both of them are all about monitoring. Voyence is firmly in GUI-land, so are Rendition and Alterpoint. Tripwire is leading the CLI charge, although I have to give the folks at Rendition partial credit for CLI, because they got a writeup for it in the Network World competitive review two months ago. Hi,
As an aside, Tony and Will both landed at Voyence. I talked about going to Rendition for a little while, but went to Tellme instead.
So if the question is 'will they ship a product without a gui interface,' I clearly lose without further inspection. If the question is 'will they ship a product with a thin gui veneer to get you to the underlying device clis,' then I clearly win - none of the vendors is building their tools based on anything other than driving the device cli. And of course, the primary piece of non-commercial software that is in use, possibly by more users than all of the commercial platforms combined, has no gui elements at all. Although that particular effort seems to suffer from a belief that its better to name a tool so that no VP or CIO will ever approve someone spending time on it, just because of the name.