What platforms, products, or services do the Netomata tools support?

Does Netomata support Cisco, Juniper, Checkpoint? Does Netomata support F5, Netscalers, etc.?

At this point, we support any of those, or none, depending on how you interpret the question.

What we're building, and have the very earliest version of available now, is a platform-independent tool. It will generate config files for whatever platforms you give it templates for. So, questions like these are analogous to asking someone creating a word processor "what kind of documents can you create? Memos? White papers? Family letters? Shopping lists? Business letters?" The answer is "yes, all of those."

Right now, you have to create the templates yourself for particular platforms (Cisco, Juniper, Checkpoint, F5, Netscaler, etc.) and use cases (web hosting, enterprise app hosting, VoIP, VPN, monitoring, etc.). Over time, we plan to offer an ever-growing library of templates for various platforms and use cases, to give people a head start on building new environments.

Even at this early stage, without the library, the tool is still useful, because it gives you a way to automate the generation (and regeneration) of configs in a consistent manner, thus improving your network's reliability and scalability. You can take your existing configs and "templatize" them (i.e., decide what parts are static and what parts should be generated from a description of your network). This should make your existing network both more reliable (by eliminating accidental inconsistencies between devices or services; for example, when you add an interface to a router, it will also be added to the monitoring system, consistently, automatically, and instantly) and more scalable (by making it quick and easy to activate and configure new devices and interfaces, or to make consistent configuration changes across multiple existing devices).