[59255] in North American Network Operators' Group
Network discovery and mapping
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Sun Jun 22 02:59:11 2003
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 02:58:39 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Its been a few years since I looked at network discovery and mapping
tools. Openview/et al did the job, but was always a pain to move all
the boxes to the right spots on the resulting maps.
Has network discovery and mapping improved for medium-scale wide
area networks for ISPs (e.g. 1,000 networks, 100,000 network devices)?
I've found lots of discovery tools, but intelligent mapping/layout still
seems to be a problem. The usual requirements for SNMP smart discovery,
interface/subnet mapping, device identification and connecting the right
symbols with the right lines to all the other symbols.
