RE: Drawing diagrams of servers
On 26-Feb-01 Russell Coker wrote:
> I want to draw some diagrams of a network showing things such as "user
> uploads files to an FTP server, FTP server uses rsync to push data to
> web server, users download data from web server". I want to do this
> will little boxes representing each machine etc.
>
> Years ago I used visio to do this on Windows.
>
> I tried Kivio (KDE visio-like program) but it doesn't allow me to
> specify types of lines between objects (I want arrows to show
> direction the data flows), it doesn't seem to allow labels on lines,
> and is generally klunky.
>
> Is there a good program in Debian that allows this?
Assuming you want a "static" diagram (e.g. which simply shows the
layout and sequence of events, etc) and not one which is updated
dynamically from a database of user activity, then I suggest that
a good way is to learn to use groff with the "pic" preprocessor.
"Pic" was tailor-made for exactly this sort of thing, and is quite
easy to use once you have got the hang of it.
Best wishes.
Ted.
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Date: 26-Feb-01 Time: 12:56:28
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