We here at ATFN believe in leveraging technology to make our lives easier: putting your flatware in the dishwasher after dinner, hacking your lawnmower so you can remote-control it from a shady hammock, replacing slow (or particularly annoying) co-workers with very small shell scripts, that sort of thing.  This site is devoted to sharing knowledge about tools that help us manage and audit information systems in an automated way.

We have extensive experience in using automated network change and configuration management (NCCM) tools (HP Network Automation, Infoblox Net MRI, Orion NCM, etc.)  in large networks and have posted a lot of our hard-learned knowledge into this site.  Get started by reading some of our articles geared to help you better understand, and manage, your automation tools.

What is an "Automatic Network" This article outlines the features and benefits you can get from successfully implemented automation tools

How do Automation Systems Work? Here we describe in depth the technical underpinnings of typical automation systems

Successful Axioms for Automation Tips for things to consider when implementing a new automation tool

5 Tasks for Maintaining a Healthy Automation System  Got an automation system? Here is a checklist of the top five care-and-feeding tasks you should perform on a regular basis to make sure it continues running for you

Feel free to contact us with questions, requests for specific content, or assistance with your own automation projects.

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