Ansible is a radically simple IT automation engine that automates cloud provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, intra-service orchestration, and many other IT needs.

Unimus is described as 'Network automation, disaster recovery, change management and configuration auditing. Unimus is NCM software, extremely easy to deploy and use, providing a wide feature-set that will help you run your network' and is a network configuration manager in the network & admin category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Unimus for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, Web-based and iPhone apps. The best Unimus alternative is Ansible, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Unimus are ManageEngine OpManager, Auvik, DeviceExpert and RANCID.
Ansible is a radically simple IT automation engine that automates cloud provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, intra-service orchestration, and many other IT needs.

Track network performance with real-time monitoring for routers, switches, servers, and more. Supports Hyper-V, VMware, IP-based devices, offering visualization tools and fault management.




Auvik is cloud based network monitoring and management, providing centralized IT teams with networks visibility and intelligence about their network to prevent, detect, and resolve issues quickly.




ManageEngine DeviceExpert is a Network Change and Configuration Management Software to manage the configurations of switches, routers, firewalls and other network devices
RANCID - Really Awesome New Cisco confIg Differ. A web-based tool for automatically downloading Cisco configurations into a CVS version-control system which can be searched, displayed and "diffed" to compare versions of the configuration files.




A fast and lightweight TR-069 Auto Configuration Server (ACS). GenieACS can work with any device that supports the TR-069 protocol. It auto-discovers the device’s parameter tree (including vendor-specific parameters) making no assumptions about the device’s data model.

rConfig is a free open source network device configuration management utility for network engineers to take frequent configuration snapshots of their network devices.

Kiwi CatTools saves you time by automating common network configuration tasks. It supports over 60 different device-types from the leading network device manufacturers. Mainly Backup device configurations, rollback, perform bulk changes.



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EasyCwmp is a GPLv2 open source implementation of the TR069 cwmp standard. EasyCwmp is developed by PIVA Software and it is derived from the project freecwmp.The aim of this project is to be fully conform with the TR069 CWMP standard.
Ansible is an IaC automation platform, where Unimus focuses on config backup, change management, config auditing. There are automation features in Unimus, but its is not an IaC platform. The automation in Unimus works very differently to Ansible.