[AusNOG] Network Visualisation Tools, favourites?

[Daniel Hooper]

I find visio to be the quickest and easiest (yes I know you said no to visio), I've stuck with visio for about ten years now due to the massive amount of vendor stencils I've acquired in my travels, most are freely available on the interwebs.



Good stencils like IBM & Cisco's will allow you to place modules/wics/line cards etc inside of other stencils.



I'm not sure what heavy time investment would be needed for Visio..

-Dan
From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Sean K. Finn
Sent: Monday, 19 September 2011 11:20 AM
To: 'Ausnog at ausnog.net'
Subject: [AusNOG] Network Visualisation Tools, favourites?

Hi All,

I was wondering what people are using these days for network diagramming tools for design / scribbling network maps for possible layouts instead of using a pen and napkin?
I want to be able to quickly mud-map diagrams up without having to heavily invest my time with Visio or something like that.

Can some of you please volunteer your favourite network-scribbling tools (Preferable Open Source/Free but paid ones are appropriate, too, if they cut the mustard).



I'll volunteer a tool that I was discussing with several people at AusNOG on Thursday/Friday since several people thought it was pretty cool and hadn't heard of it yet.

For Live Updates from CACTI/MRTG Graphing We're currently using NETWORK WEATHERMAP
http://www.network-weathermap.com/gallery
This is great to have on a heads-up display to give a quick overview of immediate health / congestion for the wall of your NOC.
Certainly not the be-all and end-all but definitely good to have when you need it.

The easiest way to install it is to run CactiEZ which is a bundled OS, plus cacti, plus a whole bunch of common plugins.
http://cactiez.cactiusers.org/
All you need is a server, cactiEZ, SNMP enabled on your network, and a few hours and you are up and running.

Best Regards,
Sean.

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