Re: [OffTopic] Network documentation templates

["Diego F. Asanza" <diegoasanza@gmail.com>]

Am Mittwoch, den 23.01.2008, 16:21 +0100 schrieb Dominique Görsch:
> Andrew McGlashan wrotes:
> > One thing you need to have when applying for a bunch of 
> > IPs is a suitable network diagram to justify the application.
> 
> For diagrams of the network topology I use MS Visio (like in [1]). My 
> customers relish this kind of graphics in documentations. In the past I 
> had a small tool (at that time running on WfW) that scanned the network 
> recursive for machines (via Netbios and IP) and tried to paint a diagram 
> of the hosts and nodes. The graphic wasn't really pretty and 
> unfortunately I can't remember the name.
> 
> Best regards
> Dominique Görsch
> 
> [1] http://picpaste.de/topologie2.png - small diagram of my LAN at home
> 
> 
For those kinds of diagrams try gnu software Dia. Nagios can help to
mantain the network structure organization. I think it can even give you
a live network status map diagram.

http://poormanstech.blogspot.com/2007/01/server-monitoring-nagios.html

Yours,

D.A.