<div dir="ltr"><div>We have a very strictly followed cabling standard so we have some overall visio drawings that represent an easy for someone to figure out what's going on higher level but nice detail/rarely needs to be modified documentation. We also have some customize/in house software used to database exactly what is where that drives the configs for some monitoring software and wraps it into 1 interface.<br><br></div>Obserivum is a pretty interesting tool and really useful as it's auto-maintaining and the only real changelog of what happened over time for networking devices (and servers, pdus, etc) if you use it that way.<br><div><div><div><br></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><br>Bryan Socha<br>Network Engineer<br>DigitalOcean<br>646-450-0472</div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 1:32 AM, Michael Wheeler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michael@michael-wheeler.org" target="_blank">michael@michael-wheeler.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">I installed wiremaps to get lldp and CDP info, then wrote a simple web page to display the data with sigmajs mapping</p>
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<div>That's my recommendation as well, a high level Visio for the entire network then one per PoP.</div>
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On 13 Sep 2014, at 12:54, "Joseph Goldman" <<a href="mailto:joe@apcs.com.au" target="_blank">joe@apcs.com.au</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div>I tend to just use nagios built in map to a degree, although my network isn't as big as yours. Maybe split out into sites, then have a dedicated visio for intersite connectivity?
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 13 September 2014 11:33:29 GMT+10:00, Jared Hirst <<a href="mailto:jared.hirst@serversaustralia.com.au" target="_blank">jared.hirst@serversaustralia.com.au</a>> wrote:
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Our network map is getting rather large now and hard to manage in Visio with so many switches and links coming online daily, what does everyone use to manage this between a team of network guys?</div>
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Happy to have replies for suggested software and ideas on and off list.</div>
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