3rd Party Alternatives to Manage Cisco Catalyst Switches

[Ex-Engineer1968]

IHAC who has a bit of Cisco fatigue. They will refresh their Cisco Catalyst LAN hardware with Cisco, but they want to move away from OpManager and explore a 3rd party alternative that can do network monitoring, as well as more holistic configuration deployment and management. Cisco keeps trying to ram DNA/SD-Access down their throats.

Does anyone have any tried and tested 3rd party alternative recommendations?

[Leo Laohoo]

For network monitoring, we use AKiPS.

[Ruben Cocheno]

@Ex-Engineer1968 

On the commercial side Solarwinds for Catalyst is fine, but if you have DC technologies that might become a bit more diffcult from the configuration deployment.

On the other side of the spectrum "FOSS", monitoring you have Icinga, Nagios, Observium with a large community supporting them. Now for Config Management, i haven't seen any all round "product" except using Ansible and/or some Python/others