Does anyone known some tool for network documentation with:

- inventory (cards, serial numbers, manufactor...) - documentation (configurations, software version control, etc) - topology building (L2, L3.. connections, layer control, ...)

We've been using a modelling tool called WANDL which does a lot of this. It imports router configs and the output of various show commands to build a network model along with a lot of inventory info. If you give it the geographic coordinates of all your devices (simple script) then it will draw nice topology maps which you can color to show hot circuits. There are tons of reports and reporting options including a number of integrity checks that can show you where you have undefined routemaps or unused ACLS, etc. Although it can do discovery, we don't use that because we are more interested in capacity planning. All the model info is stored in text files so it is relatively easy to tweak it, modify it with scripts to add tags to the maps, and so on. --Michael Dillon