Silly CISCO IOS question

goldenlight

Will Cisco every implement a GUI interface for ther Business routers and Swicthes?


I am getting use to Packet Tracer

down77

They have DCNM Lan for Nexus and Cisco Configuration Assistant for ISR class devices. Your core network engineers will continue to use CLI for efficiency and speed.

MAC_Addy

goldenlight wrote: »

Will Cisco every implement a GUI interface for ther Business routers and Swicthes?


I am getting use to Packet Tracer

Why would you want a GUI? There's SDM and CCP. Though, you can be more specific with the CLI.

goldenlight

Been playing around with the CLI in Packet tracer for a couple of days. You can move so much faster then using The CLI vs the GUI. It not so bad once you get use to it.

YFZblu

Not so bad? The best part of Cisco is the CLI

Regarding the GUI - CCP is the latest, and from what I've seen it can be really useful when setting the security posture of a group of devices with similar functions, or when you want to grab a really good looking graph. But otherwise, most networkers I've talked to like the granular control, speed, and flexibility of the CLI.

MAC_Addy

I agree with you YFZblue - CLI is the best part. SDM is rather weak and CCP is pretty good. Though, I don't like the flashy look of it all. Makes me feel like amateur hour when using CCP.

Look at it this way - someone walks into your office, looks at your screen and sees you configuring a device using CLI, they're going to think you're a genius because you're coding everything in. If you're using SDM or CCP they're going to think that you're configuring a netgear or something similar. There's just so much more you can do with CLI.