[89481] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network graphics tools
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roland Dobbins)
Tue Mar 21 21:23:22 2006
In-Reply-To: <p06230900c04641f5bd3f@[192.168.0.2]>
From: Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@cisco.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 18:21:35 -0800
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Mar 21, 2006, at 6:17 PM, Howard C. Berkowitz wrote:
>
> Much of the enterprise market seems wedded to Visio as their
> network graphics tool, which locks them into Windows. Personally, I
> hate both little pictures of equipment and Cisco hockey-puck icons;
> I much prefer things like rectangles saying "7507 STL-1" or "M160
> NYC-3".
>
> Assuming you use *NIX platforms (including BSD under Mac OS X),
> what are your preferred tools for network drawings, both for
> internal and external use? I'd hate to be driven to Windows only
> because I need Visio.
I use OmniGraffle Pro for OS/X:
http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnigraffle/pro/
It can import and export Visio XML format, as well.
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