[119749] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: STP Visualization
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Plonka)
Mon Nov 30 14:31:34 2009
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:30:31 -0600
From: Dave Plonka <plonka@doit.wisc.edu>
In-reply-to: <hf126l$k44$1@ger.gmane.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Reply-To: plonka@cs.wisc.edu
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 06:16:53PM +0000, David Freedman wrote:
> I wrote a perl/libgd tool some time ago which acts as a cgi script and
> takes live data and makes pretty pictures of it (per vlan).
> Note due a bunch of stuff not being uniformly implemented in IOS via
> SNMP I've had to screen scrape a little and I'm afraid this means I
> don't have any CatOS support.
>
> Let me know offlist if you are interested in the code.
I have something to do this as well, using perl to grab all the
details via SNMP, and then visualization using GraphViz.
You're welcome to use it to start with:
http://net.doit.wisc.edu/~plonka/stpgraph/
There's a sample PDF in the "examples/" sub-dir.
Dave
P.S. I know initially you request a "good tool", which is in the
eye of the beholder. This one will want a programmer's eye, I guess.
--
plonka@cs.wisc.edu http://net.doit.wisc.edu/~plonka/ Madison, WI
