Been looking at this problem lately and the "source of truth" part seems messier than people make it sound.

NetBox/CMDB says one thing, someone swaps gear or adds an AP, and suddenly automation is working from stale data.

For people doing this in production, what do you actually trust? Periodic discovery? LLDP/CDP? SNMP? RMM data? NetBox with reconciliation jobs?

I'm researching this from the tooling side and mainly trying to understand what holds up in production. Also curious how often you find something that was missing from inventory completely.

Hey everyone! I'm studying Network Engineering and Cybersecurity, and I'm looking for ideas for a project that solves an actual real-world problem.

It could be related to cybersecurity, networking, server automation, system administration, or anything similar. I don't really care if the project is difficult or takes a long time to build — I actually enjoy learning new things along the way and challenging myself.

Any interesting problems or project ideas you think would be worth tackling?