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AlterPoint Tuesday launched its ZipTie open source project that the company says will make sophisticated network change and configuration management technologies available for free.
ZipTie, a name loosely based on network managers' desire to tie together many components in their environments, offers customers, equipment vendors and software makers access to source code in AlterPoint's DeviceAuthority Suite under the Mozilla Public License.
"We are making our framework for network configuration management available in the ZipTie project to help customers struggling with proprietary tools and to further development of the technology area," says AlterPoint CEO Scott Harmon. "We are donating our code that supports multiple vendor devices on the ZipTie Web site on day one."
DeviceAuthority, heralded as a time and money saver by companies such as Citigroup, automates a device discovery process, which reports back hardware and software configuration data from every device to be managed. Network administrators can then set policies and rules, and the software can be set to automatically enforce them based on device configurations and network changes that could affect the configurations.
ZipTie is a client-side application that can be downloaded to a Windows or Linux machine. It features device discovery and backup, device configuration comparison, configuration change detection, configuration distribution and an extensive set of point-and-click tools for performing administrative functions on network devices such as routers, switches and firewalls.
AlterPoint, a member of the Open Management Consortium, plans in the first quarter of next year to offer a support package with its ZipTie application. The vendor has also launched an open source community to get IT managers working together on the challenges of heterogeneous network change and configuration management.
Industry standards efforts, such as NetConf, propose a means to consistently collect configuration information, but until recently many IT managers depended upon proprietary tools from their equipment vendors.
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