An update.... I've done quite a bit of testing and I've decided to go with Gen.IT to generate my site and core configs. It does require a bit of work to get it going (building templates which I need anyway).The benifit is that once I've built my templates, I can build the configs for an entire site in a couple of minutes with no typo's etc. Once I have the config's I can pass them to the guys in the field to copy/paste and test. Steve ... View more

Thanks again, From the looks of it, Gen.IT would be able to generate the config file which the router can then upload. It also looks like it's able to do IP address calculations to work out HSRP/subnet addressing. I'll keep testing.... ... View more

Thanks Leo, Smartinstall is great for getting the switches onto the network (assuming you have access to your core at the time of power up - not so in my case) with a base config. The majority of the config's i'm interested in are the vlan configs (l2 & l3), and port configs. Unfortunately I don't see smartinstall helping with this. ... View more

Thanks Andras, I've done quite a bit of searching and I've come across Gen.IT ( http://www.gen-it.net ). It's GUI/spreadsheet driven rather than scripting. I'm testing it now, and it seems like it will do the job. Is anyone else is using it, any comments on it before I think of purchasing it? Steve ... View more