Hi everybody, can anybody recomend a piece of software, that could "graph" a live network scanning it via snmp. requirements are: 1. must produce a text output suitable for postproduction. graphviz is an ideal, xml - acceptable. 2. must use no external database i.e. have text config file. clean text console, suitable to run as a cronjob. 3. must be able to work in heterogenous environment. thanks a lot in advance -- With best regards, Gregory Edigarov
mrtg? www.mrtg.org On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 9:21 AM, Gregory Edigarov <greg@bestnet.kharkov.ua> wrote:
Hi everybody,
can anybody recomend a piece of software, that could "graph" a live network scanning it via snmp. requirements are: 1. must produce a text output suitable for postproduction. graphviz is an ideal, xml - acceptable. 2. must use no external database i.e. have text config file. clean text console, suitable to run as a cronjob. 3. must be able to work in heterogenous environment.
thanks a lot in advance
-- With best regards, Gregory Edigarov
Cacti is a very useful graphing tool We have used it to graph anything we can grab via snmp. Hope that helps. Jeremy Bowen
Hi everybody,
can anybody recomend a piece of software, that could "graph" a live network scanning it via snmp. requirements are: 1. must produce a text output suitable for postproduction. graphviz is an ideal, xml - acceptable. 2. must use no external database i.e. have text config file. clean text console, suitable to run as a cronjob. 3. must be able to work in heterogenous environment.
thanks a lot in advance
- With best regards, Gregory Edigarov
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Cacti uses MySQL, but I'm not sure if plain rrdtool does. There is support for custom programming, so might be worth checking out. http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/ Sincerely, Eric Tykwinski TrueNet, Inc. P: 610-429-8300 F: 610-429-3222 -----Original Message----- From: Bowen, Jeremy M [mailto:Jeremy.M.Bowen@windstream.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2011 9:27 AM To: 'Gregory Edigarov'; nanog@nanog.org Subject: RE: software wanted Cacti is a very useful graphing tool We have used it to graph anything we can grab via snmp. Hope that helps. Jeremy Bowen
Hi everybody,
can anybody recomend a piece of software, that could "graph" a live network scanning it via snmp. requirements are: 1. must produce a text output suitable for postproduction. graphviz is an ideal, xml - acceptable. 2. must use no external database i.e. have text config file. clean text console, suitable to run as a cronjob. 3. must be able to work in heterogenous environment.
thanks a lot in advance
- With best regards, Gregory Edigarov
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On Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:21:50 +0200 Gregory Edigarov <greg@bestnet.kharkov.ua> wrote:
Hi everybody,
can anybody recomend a piece of software, that could "graph" a live network scanning it via snmp. requirements are: 1. must produce a text output suitable for postproduction. graphviz is an ideal, xml - acceptable. 2. must use no external database i.e. have text config file. clean text console, suitable to run as a cronjob. 3. must be able to work in heterogenous environment.
thanks a lot in advance
and, the question is about producing network schematic, not about graphs like mrtg, cacti etc, etc.... -- With best regards, Gregory Edigarov
So you want a dynamic real time network discovery / topology mapping? I think Whatsup gold tried this years ago and it could even export to Visio. But not sure lately. -Hammer- "I was a normal American nerd" -Jack Herer On 12/20/2011 08:37 AM, Gregory Edigarov wrote:
On Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:21:50 +0200 Gregory Edigarov<greg@bestnet.kharkov.ua> wrote:
Hi everybody,
can anybody recomend a piece of software, that could "graph" a live network scanning it via snmp. requirements are: 1. must produce a text output suitable for postproduction. graphviz is an ideal, xml - acceptable. 2. must use no external database i.e. have text config file. clean text console, suitable to run as a cronjob. 3. must be able to work in heterogenous environment.
thanks a lot in advance
and, the question is about producing network schematic, not about graphs like mrtg, cacti etc, etc....
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 04:37:35PM +0200, Gregory Edigarov wrote: [snip]
can anybody recomend a piece of software, that could "graph" a live network scanning it via snmp. requirements are: 1. must produce a text output suitable for postproduction. graphviz is an ideal, xml - acceptable. 2. must use no external database i.e. have text config file. clean text console, suitable to run as a cronjob. 3. must be able to work in heterogenous environment.
and, the question is about producing network schematic, not about graphs like mrtg, cacti etc, etc....
Rather than SNMP probing, for larger layer3 networks try setting up a proper config archive (rancid), then build on mktop and top2dot: http://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog26/presentations/stephen.pdf If you want to use SNMP and have good detail for layer2 networks and edge stations, take a look at http://www.netdisco.org/ Good old intermapper has been commercial for a while, does probing using several methods and makes pretty maps http://www.intermapper.com/ -- RSUC / GweepNet / Spunk / FnB / Usenix / SAGE / NewNOG
On 12/20/11 9:21 AM, Gregory Edigarov wrote:
Hi everybody,
can anybody recomend a piece of software, that could "graph" a live network scanning it via snmp. requirements are: 1. must produce a text output suitable for postproduction. graphviz is an ideal, xml - acceptable. 2. must use no external database i.e. have text config file. clean text console, suitable to run as a cronjob. 3. must be able to work in heterogenous environment.
thanks a lot in advance
This *might* do what you want. It will create the graph for you, what happens after that I don't know. http://www.mikrotik.com/thedude.php I played with it briefly but it didn't really serve a purpose for us since we derive our network layout from the OSS database. -- Mark Radabaugh Amplex mark@amplex.net 419.837.5015
can anybody recommend a piece of software, that could "graph" a live network scanning it via snmp. requirements are: 1. must produce a text output suitable for postproduction. graphviz is an ideal, xml - acceptable. 2. must use no external database i.e. have text config file. clean text console, suitable to run as a cronjob. 3. must be able to work in heterogenous environment.
Except for requirement #2, NetDisco would fulfill your requirements. On the otherhand, NetDisco uses a database for topology management. For the graph side, it creates a text file useable by graphviz. Raymond. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
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