[AusNOG] Network Visualisation Tools, favourites?

[Simon Knight]

yEd is a free diagram drawing tool, comparable to Omnigraffle or
Visio. After tracing over 200 network maps for our Topology Zoo
project, I prefer yEd whenever I have to use OmniGraffle for drawing
diagrams (and doesn't have the price tag)
http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_download.html

On a related note, I am very interested in the requirements network
operators have for both network drawing and network visualisation
tools. Joel Obstfeld from Juniper spoke briefly about some of the
stuff we are doing at the University of Adelaide with regards to
network design and configuration. Our aim would be to take a network
diagram from something like yEd, Visio or Omnigraffle, and construct
the network configuration from this. We are part way into this process
- we can generate working configurations from a network diagram - and
would like to get some input from industry in terms of network design
and config tasks.

Visualisation is also a key part of network operations, and is
something we are also interested in.

Any feedback or input is welcomed - either on or off list.

Cheers
Simon


On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Matt Taylor <matt at mt.au.com> wrote:
> On 19/09/2011 2:02 PM, Mark Newton wrote:
>>
>> Playing around with Network Weathermap was what inspired me to
>> throw together this:
>> http://nodemap.internode.on.net
>>
>> The website version hasn't been updated for quite a while, but it's
>> GPL so you can pick it up and run with it if you want.
>>
>>  - mark
>
> Looks great, thanks for that link mate!
>
> Matt.
>
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