Posted by hq4ever on Mon 21 Aug 2006 at 08:01
The one absolute truth every sysadmin confronts is "I need to document my network infrastructure, How do I do it?" I hope, with your help, to get this question solved here, now, today, once and for all.
How do you Debian sysadmins manage your networks diagrams? What tools are you using? What guidelines do you follow? What "hard experience based truths" will you be willing to share with us, children?
I'm looking for software to create Network Maps. I'm looking for software to display Network Topology. I'm looking for software to manage hardware inventory
Generally speaking, I'm on the quest to find any bit of software that would be useful for rapid and efficient network structure documentation and administration.
Wait, there's more: I would really love it if this software could generate output in "common format", so that even if it would get sent by mail to the alternative OS, it's user won't need to download zillion over blown executable to view it.
Google, forums, IRC, Wikipedia, Mailing Lists and apt-cache have given me this so far :
None of them feels like the right tool for the job.
Thank You for your help
Maxim
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