[161426] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network mapping software
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hank Nussbacher)
Wed Mar 13 01:47:10 2013
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 07:46:48 +0200
To: Garrett Skjelstad <garrett@skjelstad.org>,
"North American Network Operators' Group" <nanog@nanog.org>
From: Hank Nussbacher <hank@efes.iucc.ac.il>
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At 12:16 12/03/2013 -0700, Garrett Skjelstad wrote:
>I have seen NetBrain mentioned a few times here on this mailing list. Does
>anyone have any experience with it, and could they tell me some of the pros
>& cons that they had of their installations?
>
>Any limitations or pain points? Feel free to hit me off list.
This is a very nice piece of software for building automated maps of your
network. You can do it online or feed it all your saved config files from
a directory and it will auto-build OSPF and BGP or EIGRP maps of your
network. It helped me spot one place where we forgot to turn on PIM. The
map is dynamic and you can move your routers around and the links move with
the shift on the map. It also flags routers that are missing a connection
from the other end.
-Hank
>-Garrett
