NCM Needed?

[IPPilot]

Planning a BCM 400 networked to 12 BCM 50's. Vendor is recommending Network config manager. What is advantage? What do I loose by giving it up?

 

[biv343]

NCM is nice if you have the same auto attendants, etc all around. It automates patching (meaning you can roll patches out on a schedule after hours). It's also nice for centralizing backups.

You can't do "set admin" though, meaning make programming changes to sets, etc. You can make a "template" which is handy if you roll out more systems.

NCM is nice for a really large environment (50 sites or more). I would say with 12 sites, if your environment is fairly static (meaning not a lot of changes, etc), pass on NCM.

Just my opinion.

 

[acewarlock]

I have 60 BCM sites and I maintain then without an NCM, I do all the changes from the home office. each site has a seperate server that I send a backup to each night at 11:59 PM and a backup on each E: harddrive. I control everthing including resetting Vmail password and MAC's.

 

[NARSBARS]

acewarlock

I am using a shared folder on a PC for backups. I understand that using ftp is easier. How are you doing your backups. Thirty BCMs and growing.

NARSBARS

 

[acewarlock]

Each of our sites has a server and we backup to the E drive and the server, then all60 servers are backup to the home office.

 

[MagnaRGP]

I prefer FTP because it's offsite and you don't have to worry about shared drive permissions.

All of my customer BCM's (and Contivity's and anything else that will handle it) all backup to 1 FTP server as a value add to their service contract (schedule varying based on the level of service the subscribe to.) They can schedule their own backups to their own devices and worry about their own permissions etc, but I maintain an offsite backup.

It's worked a treat for the 2 customers whose Hard Drives have needed to be replaced/reimaged.



That's my 2 cents Canadian.