[111718] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network diagram software
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Provo)
Wed Feb 11 08:17:47 2009
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:17:38 -0500
From: Joe Provo <nanog-post@rsuc.gweep.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <3e306c60902110506l4d539149w25b1a49298b70d40@mail.gmail.com>
Reply-To: nanog-post@rsuc.gweep.net
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On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 02:06:09PM +0100, Mathias Wolkert wrote:
> I'd like to know what software people are using to document networks.
> Visio is obvious but feels like a straight jacket to me.
> I liked netviz but it seems owned by CA and unsupported nowadays.
>
> What do you use?
To what end? The visio or 'presentation software' straightjackets
are common for customer-facing presentations. I strongly advise
automated solutions for real, day to day use.
- dot -> graphviz (http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0210/ppt/stephen.pdf)
_ tkined
- network-weathermap.com
- ...plenty more I don't have at my fingertips on evdo.
And just use xpaint/gimp for cleaning up images from those for any
internal documentation :-)
Cheers!
Joe
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