[89493] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network graphics tools
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Wed Mar 22 03:11:25 2006
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 00:10:33 -0800
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
To: "Howard C. Berkowitz" <hcb@gettcomm.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <p06230900c04641f5bd3f@[192.168.0.2]>
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I've had pretty good luck with OmniGraffle Professional, and, it's fairly
cheap, too. Has many of the features Visio has, and, is gaining more
on a regular basis. It lacks the Visio silly pictures (although you could
create your own easily enough), but, it does understand connections between
objects and has some more advanced metadata features I haven't yet learned
to use. It's also got half-way decent auto-layout capabilities.
http://www.omnigroup.com
Owen
--On March 21, 2006 9:17:44 PM -0500 "Howard C. Berkowitz"=20
<hcb@gettcomm.com> 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.
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