-----Original Message----- From: Kevin Day [mailto:toasty@dragondata.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 2:16 PM To: Mathias Wolkert Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Network diagram software
On Feb 11, 2009, at 7:06 AM, Mathias Wolkert wrote:
I'd like to know what software people are using to document networks. Visio is obvious but feels like a straight jacket to me. I liked netviz but it seems owned by CA and unsupported nowadays.
What do you use?
/Tias
Two packages that I'm looking at right now for a project.
RackMonkey http://flux.org.uk/projects/rackmonkey/
Simple, AJAX-ified, looks very easy to use for non-nerds. Keeps track of rack space allocations, devices, even does some neat tricks using Dell service tags to let you see warranty/config info.
You remind me of a design discussion, well-lubricated with beer, in which my team was trying, in spite of top management, to design great carrier routers. At one point, partially for RFC4098 benchmarking, we wanted to put a GPS card into some prototypes, originally as a time reference. We started thinking what else we could do with it, assuming we could get an enhanced-accuracy GPS (DGPS/WAAS) signal into the machine room. Physical inventory became a possibility. Somewhere, however, it started moving into the silly, including oscillation indicating earthquakes, and then graceful arcs as the rack fell over.