On Feb 11, 2009, at 2:37 PM, Howard C. Berkowitz wrote:
-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Day [mailto:toa...@dragondata.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 2:16 PM
To: Mathias Wolkert
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Network diagram software
On Feb 11, 2009, at 7:06 AM, Mathias Wolkert wrote:
I'd like to know what software people are using to document
networks.
Visio is obvious but feels like a straight jacket to me.
I liked netviz but it seems owned by CA and unsupported nowadays.
What do you use?
/Tias
Two packages that I'm looking at right now for a project.
RackMonkey http://flux.org.uk/projects/rackmonkey/
Simple, AJAX-ified, looks very easy to use for non-nerds. Keeps track
of rack space allocations, devices, even does some neat tricks using
Dell service tags to let you see warranty/config info.
You remind me of a design discussion, well-lubricated with beer, in
which
my team was trying, in spite of top management, to design great
carrier
routers. At one point, partially for RFC4098 benchmarking, we wanted
to put
a GPS card into some prototypes, originally as a time reference.
We started thinking what else we could do with it, assuming we could
get an
enhanced-accuracy GPS (DGPS/WAAS) signal into the machine room.
Physical
inventory became a possibility. Somewhere, however, it started
moving into
the silly, including oscillation indicating earthquakes, and then
graceful
arcs as the rack fell over.
Maybe not so silly :
http://gizmodo.com/383605/laptop-accelerometers-used-to-study-earthquakes-desk-bumping
Regards
Marshall
