1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,760 I think the next thing I wanted to show then was jobs and how to schedule things. 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:09,860 So you see here I have an empty set of jobs. 3 00:00:10,760 --> 00:00:16,300 What we did before was we backed up devices manually and we clicked a button that said Backup Now, all that good stuff. 4 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:20,820 But you probably never want to say have to backup manually again. 5 00:00:20,840 --> 00:00:21,940 You just want to run that on schedule. 6 00:00:21,940 --> 00:00:25,460 So you'd go into the Jobs tab and create a new job. 7 00:00:25,940 --> 00:00:31,980 I'm going to create a backup job that's called my Nightly Backup. 8 00:00:32,660 --> 00:00:34,580 I'll put it in a group just called Nightlies. 9 00:00:37,880 --> 00:00:38,280 Okay. 10 00:00:38,580 --> 00:00:44,500 And so the first thing we do here is select the devices that are going to be part of this backup job. 11 00:00:44,580 --> 00:00:46,960 And we can create a static list of devices here. 12 00:00:47,700 --> 00:00:51,080 But what you probably want to do is do some sort of search criteria. 13 00:00:51,800 --> 00:00:55,180 And so I'm going to backup all my Austin devices, let's say. 14 00:00:55,600 --> 00:00:58,160 And all I did was say use the search from the devices view. 15 00:00:58,340 --> 00:01:00,520 So whatever you did up here, it's just going to plug into here. 16 00:01:01,160 --> 00:01:05,560 So I'm on a schedule and you get the same schedule control that we saw before. 17 00:01:05,860 --> 00:01:06,080 Right. 18 00:01:06,460 --> 00:01:12,040 I'm going to backup all of these devices, let's say nightly at midnight, some off time. 19 00:01:12,680 --> 00:01:16,240 And so this is how you would go in and do that sort of thing. 20 00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:21,240 And the other types of jobs there, you can schedule a report. 21 00:01:22,120 --> 00:01:25,460 So we have configuration change reports, which is another popular one. 22 00:01:25,780 --> 00:01:32,480 You know, every morning I want to see an email that gives me the configuration changes that happened the previous day, that type of thing. 23 00:01:32,800 --> 00:01:35,940 It's like your BlackBerry driving commute goody time. 24 00:01:36,360 --> 00:01:36,520 Yeah. 25 00:01:37,480 --> 00:01:37,960 Exactly. 26 00:01:38,360 --> 00:01:40,180 You can schedule a tool as well. 27 00:01:40,420 --> 00:01:44,180 So everything we did before, like we changed the login banner on devices. 28 00:01:44,180 --> 00:01:50,940 If you didn't want to run that now, you'd create a new job and schedule, you know, your login banner should change at 10 p.m. tonight, let's say. 29 00:01:51,220 --> 00:02:01,240 Okay, so sort of through that avenue, since adapters can add different tools and you could actually have different types of jobs that you would run based on what adapters have contributed. 30 00:02:02,100 --> 00:02:02,540 Correct. 31 00:02:02,840 --> 00:02:05,760 So I showed you, I'll give you a little hint on the reports there. 32 00:02:05,920 --> 00:02:08,100 I can give you a quick peek at reports, too. 33 00:02:09,020 --> 00:02:17,760 So we have two ins for reports, and one is these quick reports, which run against devices, all of the devices in your inventory, and I'll run one here. 34 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:19,100 We'll take a look at what it is. 35 00:02:20,300 --> 00:02:30,940 And while this is loading up, we run our report, we write our reports against the BERT reporting framework, which is an open source framework for reporting. 36 00:02:30,940 --> 00:02:36,780 The tool framework, or the report framework, just like tools and adapters, extensible as well. 37 00:02:36,980 --> 00:02:47,080 So if you know what BERT is, and you can write a BERT report, you can drop it in our system, and it'll show up in wherever you want to put it, in the quick reports or from the devices view. 38 00:02:47,820 --> 00:02:57,160 So this software summary report that came up is just, you know, going against our flat database and tells me all the different vendor types that I have and the operating systems of each vendor. 39 00:02:57,520 --> 00:02:59,100 Let's give another example here. 40 00:03:01,260 --> 00:03:04,380 Let's say I want to see my network hardware summary. 41 00:03:05,900 --> 00:03:10,100 This will give me a similar output, but in a more graphical format. 42 00:03:13,600 --> 00:03:16,900 You can see these are my breakdown of hardware vendors. 43 00:03:17,180 --> 00:03:17,440 All right. 44 00:03:17,440 --> 00:03:19,240 And then the device types as well. 45 00:03:19,580 --> 00:03:29,740 So I can see that I have so many, you know, I've got 62 routers, 55 switches, and, you know, a slew of other device types in my network, too. 46 00:03:29,820 --> 00:03:32,680 So I can just get kind of a quick view of what I actually have. 47 00:03:32,920 --> 00:03:33,200 Right. 48 00:03:33,680 --> 00:03:42,440 And along with this, you know, if you want to see what you actually have for software and you don't allow, like, 1125P code out there, you can come in here and make sure no one's running it in your network. 49 00:03:43,100 --> 00:03:43,320 Right. 50 00:03:43,440 --> 00:03:45,240 No one wants that 1125P code. 51 00:03:45,480 --> 00:03:45,760 No. 52 00:03:46,800 --> 00:03:57,560 Along with the ARP cache and all the other neighbor type stuff we store, we have this neighbors button here that gives you a quick view of what's attached to each device. 53 00:03:58,260 --> 00:04:00,700 So I brought up the neighbors for my 7206. 54 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:09,860 And I see that I have, you know, eight or so OSPF neighbors and several BGP neighbors and several CDP neighbors and some IPv6 NDP neighbors. 55 00:04:10,920 --> 00:04:13,400 So this just presents it in a nice table for you. 56 00:04:13,780 --> 00:04:15,460 And you kind of walk what you'd expect. 57 00:04:15,460 --> 00:04:20,380 So let's say I want to walk through my BGP neighbors. 58 00:04:21,160 --> 00:04:24,680 I'm on this 20.213 device. 59 00:04:24,840 --> 00:04:27,620 I'm going to double-click on this 20.215 device. 60 00:04:28,080 --> 00:04:31,580 Now it pops up that guy's neighbors, this DAL M5. 61 00:04:33,020 --> 00:04:34,980 And you can walk to another device from there. 62 00:04:35,080 --> 00:04:38,140 And you see this table is kind of refreshing with each guy's new neighbors. 63 00:04:38,140 --> 00:04:43,940 So you can sort of use this sort of drilling down table to walk across your network's neighborhoods, if you will. 64 00:04:44,140 --> 00:04:44,620 Yeah, yeah. 65 00:04:44,680 --> 00:04:45,580 It's almost the replacement. 66 00:04:45,800 --> 00:04:48,640 I would say it's a replacement for, like, a visual topology. 67 00:04:48,840 --> 00:04:49,100 Right. 68 00:04:49,640 --> 00:04:54,360 So, you know, a visual topology in itself isn't useful, I would say. 69 00:04:55,500 --> 00:05:01,180 You know, things that use a topology kind of framework, like event correlation, those things are useful. 70 00:05:01,300 --> 00:05:06,620 But just to see it, you know, I'd rather just see what's directly connected to this device and then this device and this device. 71 00:05:06,700 --> 00:05:06,880 Right. 72 00:05:06,880 --> 00:05:08,580 So we've kind of simplified that view for you. 73 00:05:08,700 --> 00:05:14,200 It's obviously easier to pack a lot more information into these tables than the visual representation. 74 00:05:14,700 --> 00:05:14,860 Yeah. 75 00:05:14,960 --> 00:05:24,660 And we can say, you know, beyond the traditional here's what you have type of map, we've actually said, well, here's what you have and here's why you have it. 76 00:05:24,660 --> 00:05:27,420 So, you know, this guy's your neighbor via CDP. 77 00:05:27,960 --> 00:05:29,820 This guy's your OSPF neighbor. 78 00:05:30,240 --> 00:05:36,960 So to be able to say this is your OSPF neighbor versus this is your BDP neighbor is, you know, it's a good amount of data, too. 79 00:05:37,760 --> 00:05:46,420 Through the UI, one of the primary integration points might be your launchers, which is just a simple open a web page from here type of thing. 80 00:05:46,780 --> 00:05:51,020 And can you pass, like, attributes to it or something so that you might be cross-launching into something else? 81 00:05:51,020 --> 00:05:51,380 Exactly. 82 00:05:51,620 --> 00:05:51,760 Yeah. 83 00:05:51,920 --> 00:05:59,060 So I put up a dummy one just called eBay, right, which is not really an integration, but it allows me to show you what you can do with those attributes. 84 00:06:00,020 --> 00:06:02,660 And so let's say this 3750 went down. 85 00:06:02,660 --> 00:06:12,100 And I might click on here and click on my eBay launcher, and this will pop another window if its Internet connection is working all right. 86 00:06:13,980 --> 00:06:19,640 You see here it did an eBay search for this make and model of device, and it didn't find anything on eBay. 87 00:06:20,300 --> 00:06:21,460 So you better hold on to that one. 88 00:06:21,760 --> 00:06:22,040 Yeah. 89 00:06:22,460 --> 00:06:23,480 And I can't replace. 90 00:06:23,940 --> 00:06:25,580 See if another one does anything. 91 00:06:27,060 --> 00:06:30,720 But, hey, I can find a couple 7206s on eBay if I need to. 92 00:06:31,680 --> 00:06:36,720 But, anyway, so you see there it passed the make and the model of the device through to the eBay URL. 93 00:06:37,020 --> 00:06:42,060 If you want to configure those, you can do this through our API or you can do it through the UI like this. 94 00:06:43,160 --> 00:06:49,480 And so you would say, so let's say you wanted to create a Xenos integration. 95 00:06:50,920 --> 00:06:57,260 So you see here you're presented with all these variables on the right, so you can put in the host name or the IP address. 96 00:06:57,380 --> 00:06:57,620 Right. 97 00:06:57,760 --> 00:06:57,880 Yeah. 98 00:06:58,100 --> 00:07:00,320 Whatever variables you want to substitute in your URL. 99 00:07:00,320 --> 00:07:05,940 So you can basically start treating the URL sort of like an interesting interface into another system. 100 00:07:06,340 --> 00:07:06,680 Yeah. 101 00:07:07,420 --> 00:07:14,480 And it's actually a pretty easy way to, as long as you can figure out the right parameters, it's an easy way to integrate between two different things. 102 00:07:14,840 --> 00:07:15,000 Yeah. 103 00:07:15,300 --> 00:07:16,620 And we have users that do this. 104 00:07:16,760 --> 00:07:26,540 So they may set up an SSH launcher and they'll put SSH in there and then configure their Firefox to know what to do with it, the SSH protocol, that type of thing. 105 00:07:26,800 --> 00:07:28,060 So you can do quite a bit with it. 106 00:07:28,880 --> 00:07:35,680 You know, it's very simple to kind of maintain and use, but it's a strong integration point if you're looking to integrate as a third party. 107 00:07:35,940 --> 00:07:38,980 We also, you know, standard SNMP traps that we have. 108 00:07:38,980 --> 00:07:44,860 So, you know, we have a trap that we send out for when we add a device. 109 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:56,160 So if you wanted to use us for discovery and just respond to our added device and delete device traps, you can do that and, you know, never maintain your inventory on your secondary NMS. 110 00:07:56,380 --> 00:07:57,440 Just maintain it through us. 111 00:07:57,920 --> 00:08:01,940 You know, we also have our API that is kind of a strong integration point. 112 00:08:03,040 --> 00:08:04,360 A couple of things we've done. 113 00:08:05,620 --> 00:08:09,480 There's an event correlator out there called Simple Event Correlator, SCC. 114 00:08:09,820 --> 00:08:12,600 And if you look at the docs on ziptie.org, you'll see this. 115 00:08:13,520 --> 00:08:16,700 But so they're like a log watcher, basically. 116 00:08:16,820 --> 00:08:20,560 They'll look at a syslog and look for interesting things and do something on it. 117 00:08:21,160 --> 00:08:25,940 And so we have an integration using that so you could put them on your syslog server. 118 00:08:26,540 --> 00:08:31,840 And any time you see someone log in or log out of a device, you could tell ziptie to back up that device. 119 00:08:32,200 --> 00:08:35,520 So, like you were saying, ziptie is an open source project. 120 00:08:35,940 --> 00:08:39,940 And so, like what, and you've mentioned a few different languages and interfaces. 121 00:08:40,140 --> 00:08:43,800 I mean, what are the different languages and technologies that are used underneath it? 122 00:08:44,520 --> 00:08:46,580 So this server is a Java server. 123 00:08:47,640 --> 00:08:49,700 And it's built on the Equinox framework. 124 00:08:49,700 --> 00:08:53,160 It's an OSGI server, so it's bundle-based, plug-in-based. 125 00:08:54,100 --> 00:09:00,160 And this kind of allows us to, you know, do things like the tools plug-in is easier and the report plug-in is easier. 126 00:09:00,900 --> 00:09:02,240 So the server is Java. 127 00:09:02,620 --> 00:09:03,820 The adapters are Perl. 128 00:09:04,660 --> 00:09:09,160 And so, you know, each adapter is a bundle with a bunch of Perl modules in it. 129 00:09:09,780 --> 00:09:16,780 And we chose Perl because Perl seemed to be the, you know, if you were a network engineer and you did any programming, you probably did Perl or Shell, right? 130 00:09:16,780 --> 00:09:20,680 And so that's why we've written all our adapters in Perl. 131 00:09:20,860 --> 00:09:23,480 And we have all of our connection modules and everything like that in Perl. 132 00:09:24,200 --> 00:09:29,320 Now, the communication between our server and the client has always been SOAP. 133 00:09:29,680 --> 00:09:36,060 And so we, like Michael mentioned earlier, we replaced our Eclipse-based RCP client with this Flex client. 134 00:09:36,560 --> 00:09:38,740 Both of them talked SOAP to the server. 135 00:09:38,740 --> 00:09:46,220 So, you know, we didn't have to do much server work to get this new interface in because it was a standardized, you know, communication at that point. 136 00:09:46,640 --> 00:09:57,060 But the web front end is written in Flex and ActionScript, and it plays through the Adobe Flash player or through a Flash player. 137 00:09:57,060 --> 00:10:06,360 So, as I mentioned before, the idea behind open sourcing a lot of these was that it made the code accessible and very easy to extend. 138 00:10:06,640 --> 00:10:18,040 And so the biggest things that we see extended are either adapters to add some new functionality or just to create a brand new adapter or tools to actually create a viewer or automate some change out there. 139 00:10:18,180 --> 00:10:27,440 And because we do have people in our community that are creating a lot of these things, we created the Zipforge as a repository to hold all of those bits of open content. 140 00:10:28,020 --> 00:10:32,960 And, you know, some people have even called them like a currency in the network management world. 141 00:10:33,980 --> 00:10:35,520 And so you can actually go through. 142 00:10:35,780 --> 00:10:46,540 And so, you know, if you need to go out and manage a Juniper device, you can do a search on the Zipforge for all of the adapters and tools that we have for your Juniper hardware. 143 00:10:46,540 --> 00:10:51,220 ZipTie, out of the box, does a large number of things. 144 00:10:51,340 --> 00:10:54,580 It has 40 adapters and manages a wide variety of devices. 145 00:10:54,740 --> 00:10:57,260 But it's always extensible, so you can always add more functionality. 146 00:10:57,940 --> 00:11:01,560 And not only that, not only can you do it yourself, but somebody may have already done it. 147 00:11:01,660 --> 00:11:05,420 So go snoop around the Zipforge to see what's out there. 148 00:11:05,760 --> 00:11:16,420 And obviously feel free to contribute to the Zipforge as well because the biggest goal here was to not have network engineers continue to create the same tools 149 00:11:16,420 --> 00:11:21,420 over and over again, but instead give them a place where they could share ideas and content to make their jobs easier. 150 00:11:21,420 --> 00:11:25,980 In the top, you have like a lot of commercial sort of contributors that you have. 151 00:11:26,200 --> 00:11:31,180 Like what's the mix between companies you have contributing and individuals that you have contributing? 152 00:11:33,100 --> 00:11:38,220 The companies that we have contributing are largely hardware manufacturers. 153 00:11:38,660 --> 00:11:48,980 So they tend to contribute a lot of adapters so that their devices can be managed with AlterPoint products, be that the entire network authority. 154 00:11:49,780 --> 00:12:06,460 The tools that are contributed, I would say, are a little bit more split evenly between end users in the community, people here at AlterPoint who needed to create a tool to do some particular thing, or those device manufacturers. 155 00:12:06,660 --> 00:12:09,200 So the tools kind of come from all over the place. 156 00:12:09,200 --> 00:12:17,380 The adapters are generally created from scratch by some of these commercial partners. 157 00:12:18,840 --> 00:12:25,380 And while they're created from scratch by those guys, they tend to be modified or enhanced out there in the field. 158 00:12:25,580 --> 00:12:31,120 And so if you find an adapter that you want, like what's the process of adding it into your ZipTie instance? 159 00:12:31,860 --> 00:12:36,020 Right now you just go up to the ZipForge and you search for it every one. 160 00:12:36,140 --> 00:12:38,460 And so let's say you wanted this Silver Peak adapter. 161 00:12:39,340 --> 00:12:41,780 I clicked on the Silver Peak and here's the adapter. 162 00:12:42,600 --> 00:12:45,460 And you go here and you're able to download a Zip file. 163 00:12:45,960 --> 00:12:48,880 Just unzip it in your server's home directory and you're good to go. 164 00:12:48,980 --> 00:12:50,820 And it puts the plug-ins where they need to be. 165 00:12:52,060 --> 00:12:53,080 And that's pretty much it. 166 00:12:53,640 --> 00:12:57,160 And each one has deployment instructions on it so you can kind of see what you need to do. 167 00:12:57,160 --> 00:12:57,560 Okay. 168 00:12:58,100 --> 00:13:03,000 And then since it's like a web application server-based thing, you really only have to unzip it one place. 169 00:13:03,100 --> 00:13:06,040 There's not a bunch of agents or anything you have to update and all that. 170 00:13:06,200 --> 00:13:06,640 You got it. 171 00:13:06,700 --> 00:13:06,860 Yep. 172 00:13:07,040 --> 00:13:07,220 Right. 173 00:13:07,460 --> 00:13:07,640 Yep. 174 00:13:07,700 --> 00:13:08,960 Put it on the server and you're good to go. 175 00:13:09,140 --> 00:13:09,500 Well, great. 176 00:13:09,580 --> 00:13:11,580 Well, thanks for spending the time to show us this. 177 00:13:11,700 --> 00:13:12,580 And just one last thing. 178 00:13:12,660 --> 00:13:15,460 I mean, we can kind of figure out the URL from what we're looking at here. 179 00:13:15,540 --> 00:13:18,360 But if people wanted to use ZipTie, where do they go to get it? 180 00:13:19,520 --> 00:13:20,400 ZipTie.org. 181 00:13:22,680 --> 00:13:24,720 And they can just say hello to the giraffe there. 182 00:13:25,120 --> 00:13:25,640 That's right. 183 00:13:27,160 --> 00:13:32,140 And since it's open source, there's not any licensing concerns or money to pay for it. 184 00:13:32,760 --> 00:13:33,340 That's right. 185 00:13:33,440 --> 00:13:36,320 It is free to download, install, and use. 186 00:13:36,680 --> 00:13:37,760 We do have support packages. 187 00:13:38,660 --> 00:13:44,340 So you can get premium support or standard support, which gives you somebody to call any time of day or night. 188 00:13:45,200 --> 00:14:01,900 And then all of it, all of ZipTie's license under the Mozilla public license, which gives a lot of liberty to people to go out and extend it and doesn't have, you know, some of the, you know, quote, unquote, polluting clauses in it that other licenses do. 189 00:14:01,900 --> 00:14:12,200 So we wanted to do something that was a no-brainer so that this could get adopted into the enterprise and used without fear of some strange license repercussions. 190 00:14:12,760 --> 00:14:12,860 Right. 191 00:14:13,020 --> 00:14:13,760 That makes sense. 192 00:14:13,860 --> 00:14:14,140 Well, great. 193 00:14:14,240 --> 00:14:16,060 Well, thanks for taking the time to show this to us today. 194 00:14:16,600 --> 00:14:17,140 Thank you, Coté. 195 00:14:17,420 --> 00:14:17,780 Thanks.