[AusNOG] Network Visualisation Tools, favourites?

[Ivan Jukic]

It's great to see all this discussion about network mapping tools. Having up
to date maps is crucial in support the infrastructure.
I recently completed a infrastructure map, (4 in fact). I had only wished
this post came about before I started. Used Visio, god I hate it!!!  Will
play around with yED.

Cheers,

Ivan Jukic


On 19 September 2011 15:39, Andrew Fort <afort at choqolat.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 9:41 PM, Simon Knight <simon.knight at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> In my view, this sounds like a solution to the wrong problem.
>
> Have the network database provision your network resources, build the
> config, and the diagrams.  Doing it the other way around seems to
> encourage divergence from your standards.
>
> > 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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