[59256] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network discovery and mapping
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Subhi S Hashwa)
Sun Jun 22 05:35:04 2003
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 10:38:31 +0100
From: Subhi S Hashwa <subhi@thebigboss.com>
Reply-To: Subhi S Hashwa <subhi@thebigboss.com>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0306220153160.20865-100000@clifden.donelan.com>
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Sunday, June 22, 2003, 7:58:39 AM, Sean wrote:
> 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.
www.solarwinds.net
They have excellent collection of tools which is probably what you;re
looking for.
Windows only afaik
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Best regards,
Subhi S Hashwa mailto:subhi@thebigboss.com
Operations Manager
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