[Sussex] Data Diagraming?

[Mark Harrison]

Cool - thanks.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Geoff Teale" <gteale at cmedltd.com>
To: "LUG email list for the Sussex Counties" <sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 9:54 AM
Subject: Re: [Sussex] Data Diagraming?


> On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 09:46, Mark Harrison wrote:
>
> > The only area where we've had problems is in the 10% of clients who use
it
> > properly - the full version of Visio has some really nice features -
stuff
> > like the ability to click on a router on a diagram, and get taken into a
> > telnet session to manage that router...the high-end version of Visio
will
> > even wander out round the network and diagram it for you based on quite
a
> > sophisticated discovery process.
>
> You _can_ do this with Dia.
>
> There are a lot of code plug-ins for Dia out there, and if you take an
> hour or so to learn python it can be customised to your hearts content.
>
> This is exactly what has been done with Visio - you're just getting thew
> work someone else did for free.
>
> I used to work with a work-flow engine that used Visio to design the
> work-flows it automated - I've considered how useful it would be to
> develop a similar system around dia, but I've never got around to doing
> it.
>
> -- 
> GJT
> gteale at cmedltd.com
>
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