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RE: Network Inventory Tool
From: <michael.dillon () bt com>
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 08:44:07 +0100
Does anyone known some tool for network documentation with: - inventory (cards, serial numbers, manufactor...) - documentation (configurations, software version control, etc) - topology building (L2, L3.. connections, layer control, ...)
We've been using a modelling tool called WANDL which does a lot of this. It imports router configs and the output of various show commands to build a network model along with a lot of inventory info. If you give it the geographic coordinates of all your devices (simple script) then it will draw nice topology maps which you can color to show hot circuits. There are tons of reports and reporting options including a number of integrity checks that can show you where you have undefined routemaps or unused ACLS, etc. Although it can do discovery, we don't use that because we are more interested in capacity planning. All the model info is stored in text files so it is relatively easy to tweak it, modify it with scripts to add tags to the maps, and so on. --Michael Dillon
Current thread:
- Network Inventory Tool Wguisa71 (Aug 14)
- Re: Network Inventory Tool Joe Abley (Aug 14)
- Re: Network Inventory Tool Mike Lyon (Aug 14)
- RE: Network Inventory Tool michael.dillon (Aug 15)
- Re: Network Inventory Tool Brian Raaen (Aug 14)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: Network Inventory Tool James Fogg (Aug 16)
- Re: Network Inventory Tool Jason LeBlanc (Aug 16)
- Re: Network Inventory Tool Joe Abley (Aug 14)