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Network AutomationWhy Your Network Configs Should Never Leave the Building, Even for AI
AI config analysis usually means sending your configurations to someone else's cloud. Here is why data locality matters for network AI, and how air-gapped and local-LLM approaches keep configs in your control.
Network configuration managementRestorepoint Is Now Skylar Compliance: What It Means and Your NCM Options
If you went looking for Restorepoint recently and landed on a page titled Skylar Compliance, you are not lost. The product you knew has been renamed, folded into a larger suite, and repositioned. The configuration backup and recovery engine is still in there. But the name on the box, the surrounding pitch, and the buying motion around it have all changed.
The Network Engineer's Case Against Autonomous AIWhy Network Engineers Still Don't Trust AI With the Network
We'll let AI write production code and draft legal contracts. Ask it to touch BGP on a core router and the room goes quiet. Here's why that instinct is correct.
Enterprise ScaleThe NCM Industry Has an Evidence Problem. Ours Is 50,000 Devices in 21 Minutes.
The network config management industry quotes scale without evidence. rConfig pulled 50,000 devices in 21 minutes on one host. Open source test bed included.
Rconfig vectorHow an MSP Runs the rConfig Vector Suite End to End
<p> Network configuration management used to be a single-instance problem. One server, one rack of devices, one team that owned them. The job was backup, diff, rollback, and an annual compliance report. </p> <p> MSPs and large operators do not have that problem. They have a fleet of customers, each with their own kit, each in a different building, each with auditors who want to see their own access list and nobody else's. The old shape of NCM does not fit that work. You cannot expose the operator console to a customer. You cannot run one collector per customer site if every collector needs an inbound firewall hole. You cannot build a per-tenant brand on top of a tool that was designed for one company. </p>
rConfig V8rConfig v8.2.0: New Device Integrations, Custom Dashboards & a Live Debug Console
rConfig v8.2.0 is officially out, and honestly, this one has been a labour of love. It's a big release, packed with features we've been asked for, features we've wanted to ship for a while, and a handful of quality-of-life improvements that make day-to-day work in rConfig just nicer.
Network Change ManagementA CTOs Guide to Automated Network Configuration Auditing
Learn how automated configuration auditing ensures compliance, enforces policies, and provides verifiable evidence for network security.
Network Change ManagementConfig Compare and Diff for Network Devices: Understanding Configuration Changes
t starts with a concept called a configuration diff. Think of it like the "track changes" feature in a word processor, but built specifically for the syntax and logic of network device configurations. A diff tool doesn't just tell you that a file was changed; it shows you precisely what was changed, line by line. It intelligently compares two versions of a configuration file—say, the current one and the one from yesterday—and presents a clear, visual summary of the differences.
Network Change ManagementWhy A Network Config Audit Trail Is Not Optional
A configuration audit trail is the tangible output of maintaining a configuration history. Think of it as a complete historical ledger for your network devices. For every change, it must answer three simple but vital questions: who made the change, what exactly was changed, and when did it happen. This level of detail is what separates a true audit trail from a simple folder of backup files. Backups are static snapshots in time. They tell you what the configuration looked like on Tuesday, but they tell you nothing about the five changes that happened between Monday and Tuesday.