[mdlug] Network Map Software

[Dan Pritts]

there's something called scotty that's been around for years.
I don't know how much auto-discovery it has.

visio has some sort of discovery mode but i think it's geared more
toward M$ servers than network devices.  I have not tried it in
years; when i did try, it didn't immediately do something useful to
me.  worth a shot though.

I would be interested in a report of whatever you find.



on a related note, anyone aware of a freeware traceroute-like thing
for ethernet?  I can imagine how i'd write such a thing using SNMP
queries to the switches, and i've even cobbled together part of it,
but never really finished.  I heard a guy present at the Merit Joint
Techs meeting who had a homegrown tool that did this with cisco
switches, but it was using cisco-proprietary methods.

I believe that the Solarwinds product has this feature; anyone tried that?
In general, have folks used solarwinds?  It seems like it might be useful
and the price isn't too bad.

tnx
danno

On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 09:38:35AM -0500, Wojtak, Greg wrote:
> I need to make a host/network device-level network map and am wondering if
> anybody has any recommendations of any software to do this easily?  If not,
> I can just use something like OmniGraffle or Visio, but if there is software
> out there that will help me generate it automatically, then I'd rather use
> that.  The network I am mapping is pretty simplistic and relatively flat.
> The hosts on it should number around 50 so it's not that complicated.
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Greg Wojtak
> 
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