I love the idea of Netomata! I haven’t used it yet, but have often lamented the lack of structure around networking configs. This is not just a great idea for the implementation level, but also for management. If you run your shop with this, a director/manager can learn the tool and get visibility into the entire networking infrastructure rather than having to trace through the decentralized networking equipment configs.
It’s also makes the networking piece of Disaster Recovery significantly easier.
The benefits and why pages are great summaries of why to use centrally generated configs for all machine management. One of the points is “Providing a limited kind of process documentation.” This massivly sells the process short. It would be better to say “Provides unequivocally and 100% repeatable process documentation.”
If you’ve got experience with it, please post a trip report.
-Tony