[AusNOG] Network Visualisation Tools, favourites?

[Simon Knight]

That's a much trickier process, it depends what sort of data you wish
to measure.

For external networks we are limited to automated measurements such as
traceroute, which come with a lot of caveats, or looking at publicly
available materials (which we used for topology-zoo.org).

For internal networks it's a bit easier, from data such as the Link
State Database, or possibly (but much harder) by parsing the configs
themselves.

Cheers
Simon

On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 2:22 PM,  <craig at askings.com.au> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> I'd love to see the opposite of that, take a network, discover it and
> generate a yEd, Visio or Omnigraffle file.
>
> Craig.
>