configuration management

September 16, 2022

NETWORKING

Cisco DNA Center and Device configuration management

3 min read

How does Cisco DNA Center handle device configurations? How can I retrieve these configurations? How can I visualize device configuration changes in DNA Center? If you've ever asked yourself these questions, this blog is for you.

August 12, 2021

DEVELOPER

How To Simplify Cisco ACI Management with Smartsheet

3 min read

How extensible and programmable is an ACI fabric? Learn how to create your own GUI for ACI, and simplify APIC GUI configuration steps using Smartsheets.

October 21, 2014

DATA CENTER

Application Configuration Management: What’s your Approach?

5 min read

Last we spoke, it was about network device configuration management. Let’s move our focus up the stack to applications and management of their configuration. Whether enterprise or cloud-architected, running on physical servers, in virtual machines or in containers, how are you managing your applications? Puppet, Chef, Ansible and Salt are popular answers to this question and leading […]

August 12, 2013

DATA CENTER

The Golden Key to Any Cloud

2 min read

As cloud technology and organizations mature, customers are shifting their focus from the provisioning of individual servers to richer cloud-based application platform stacks. Why? Servers usually do not exist as standalone entities but are designed to run something tangible for the business. For example, multi-tier application platform stacks have in their design multi-server elements such […]