Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 15:21:02 -0500 (CDT) From: James Wyatt <jwyatt@RWSystems.net> To: Wim Livens <wim@livens.net> Cc: <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Network diagrams Message-ID: <20020905131223.H85172-100000@kasie.rwsystems.net> In-Reply-To: <20020905145940.GA87075@krijt.livens.net>
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I thought Visio used to have an "Enterprise Visio" that had both art for various routers, switches, hubs, and servers as well as the ability to "discover" network topology and browse SNMP MIBs on discovered assets to determine mfgr and model to autoselect artwork. HTH - Jy@ On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Wim Livens wrote: > I'm looking for a way to automatically generate a network diagram > image showing IP addresses, hostnames and interface names. > > We're running an ISP access network (about 20 nodes) and I don't want > to update visio drawings manually while all topology info is in a > database. Besides that, I would like to generate a similar drawing > for the customer's access link and their router on a web portal. I > could probably do the latter with GD.pm, but I feel a bit like > reinventing the wheel and rather have a more generic solution. > > The database contains a table like this: > > IPaddr, hostname, interface, network > > I understand I will need to supply some hints for the layout > generation, like a rank or coordinates for each node. > > I looked at caida.org, but these are all for large backbone networks. > > I've also been playing with dot and neato by generating the input file > from our database, but I can't get it to produce a decent layout, the > "ranking" feature of dot seems too limited. W.r.t. neato, being an > access network, there is a clear hierarchy in the nodes, so a > spring-model graph layout is not suited either. > > Any ideas ? > > thanks and hoping it was not too far off-topic, > > Wim. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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