[Sussex] Network Diagraming

[Richie Jarvis]

Paul Tansom wrote:

>I've not tried this packages since it was called NetSaint, but Nagios
>may be of use. It is primarily a network monitoring tool, but as a side
>effect of this (to some extent) it does allow you to produce network
>diagrams. I'm not sure as it automatically discovers a network though -
>but then I didn't realise Visio did either! My copy is version 4.5 iirc.
>I started using it at around version 1 (ish) when it was provided on a
>single floppy stuck to the front of a copy of Computer Shopper (so
>that's going back a bit now!). Since I wasn't a heavy user of it by any
>stretch of the imagination I was able to write it off completely when
>Microsoft bought them out - I may be at odds with many people, but I
>don't find any Microsoft products are designed for ease of use(*), and
>if they take over a product I will class it as the kiss of death if it
>was originally a good one!
>  
>

Paul Tansom wrote:

Nagios doesn't automatically discover the network - but there is a tool 
which will take an NMAP portscan file, and build the necessary config 
files for Nagios.

It doesn't produce a nice network diagram without some help though (you 
have to give co-ordinates for each node, etc)

Cheers,

Richie