Cool Utility of the Week: ZipTie
Many of you know about Kiwi Software. They are one of my favorite vendors who makes very reasonably priced utilities to manage many aspects of your Cisco network. For years, I’ve been using their Kiwi CatTools product for configuration management & bulk changes…
…but now the open source community is creeping in: Welcome ZipTie! ZipTie is a project that essentially competes with Kiwi CatTools in a Freeware/Open Source version. Now, I’ve already purchased Kiwi CatTools and love it…so what makes me excited about ZipTie? The Future!!! If you take a look at the roadmap, they’ve got more and more features planned to integrate
Not to mention that Open Source projects typically move faster than corporate environments since just about anyone can write plug-ins for the system. As a matter of fact, ZipTie already has a “partner site” (www.pass4side.com) dedicated to add-ons and plug-ins for different features and equipment. ZipTie currently has a quarterly release schedule, so I’m very excited to see how things progress this year.