[84832] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network Map Generator
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Andersen)
Mon Sep 26 16:11:39 2005
In-Reply-To: <20050926195920.208BA32C01D@smtpauth01.csee.siteprotect.com>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
From: David Andersen <dga+@cs.cmu.edu>
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 16:11:18 -0400
To: "Joe Johnson" <nanog@sendjoeanemail.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Sep 26, 2005, at 3:59 PM, Joe Johnson wrote:
>
> I'm looking for a product or script that will let us generate a
> network map for use in conjunction with Nagios. We have all of the
> parent/child dependencies defined in a SQL table, as well as the
> current status, but I can only find programs that will create a
> live map on my desktop. I also looked at the graphing Pear module,
> but it seems that it cannot generate an org-chart type map of the
> network.
>
> Anyone know of something that will generate an org-chart like
> network map dynamically?
Depends how fancy you want it to be. You can get a static map easily
using at&t's graphviz tools (dot):
http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/graphviz/
There's even WebDot so you can make the nodes clickable, though I
haven't tried that. Dot is about as simple to use as anything that
exists. Sometimes you'll be annoyed by the way it lays things out,
but it works. Hope I interpreted your question correctly.
-Dave
