[59260] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network discovery and mapping
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Justin Shore)
Sun Jun 22 14:24:38 2003
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 13:09:41 -0500 (CDT)
From: Justin Shore <listuser@numbnuts.net>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0306220153160.20865-100000@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Sun, 22 Jun 2003, Sean Donelan 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.
Cheops and Cheops-ng might be useful to you.
http://www.marko.net/cheops/
http://cheops-ng.sourceforge.net/
Justin