[dba-Tech] Network drawing and admin tool

Hello Gustav,

thanks for taking the time to post the links here.

Mark



On 10 February 2010 10:13, Gustav Brock <Gustav at cactus.dk> wrote:

> Hi Bobby
>
> So you are the only one drawing network diagrams without pen and paper??
> Anyway, with some help from Experts-Exchange:
>
>
> http://www.experts-exchange.com/Networking/Network_Management/Network_Operations/Q_25097664.html
>
> I decided to follow your advice after I had located this site:
>
>  http://www.visguy.com
>
> and the sub area:
>
>  http://www.visguy.com/category/visio-content/shapes/network/
>
> and indeed this page with:
>
>  "Oblique Connectors For Your 3D Diagrams"
>  http://www.visguy.com/2007/10/29/oblique-connectors-for-your-3d-diagrams/
>
> and read this mandatory article:
>
>  "Show IP addresses and other information on your Visio network diagrams"
>
> http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/visio/HA101515431033.aspx?pid=CH100986851033
>
> I should note that one free tool with lots of excellent features is
> available:
>
>  Network Notepad
>  http://www.networknotepad.com/
>
> Thanks for the tip!
>
> /gustav
>
>
> >>> bheid at sc.rr.com 31-01-2010 02:49 >>>
> I don't know if this is still the case, but there was something with Visio
> where it could document your network.  Not sure if it was an add-in or
> something native to Visio.
>
> Bobby
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gustav Brock
> Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 7:02 AM
> To: dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com
> Subject: [dba-Tech] Network drawing and admin tool
>
> Hi all
>
> Can anyone recommend a good tool to create _and_ maintain a drawing of
> networks including IP addresses, host- and usernames, passwords, etc?
>
> We are about reconfiguring our network and, though tiny compared to a
> enterprise network, I've found that with two geographic locations, virtual
> servers, internal/external/remote backup systems with configurations and
> schedules, admin remote desktop access, LogMeIn accounts, multiple spam
> filters and mail servers, database servers, ftp server, inside/outside IP
> addresses, etc., and remote web access for the users to much of this, it's
> becoming a mess.
>
> Ideally I would like to have a drawing I can hand to a skilled techie and
> he/she would in 10 minutes be able to have a clear idea what to do to
> perform some task, where to look for log files, where to locate backup
> configurations for routers, etc.
>
> For example, VMware sports an internal or virtual network on a physical
> machine which can have a quite specific configuration if the virtual
> servers
> are for outside access. Most tools I've seen through the years deal with
> network and physical machines and are not easy to use for virtual machines
> (which always runs on a physical machine you also need to control).
>
> Another example: SOHO routers have these days a web interface but how do
> you
> document the setup of such routers? Sometimes you have a quite convoluted
> system of port redirections and firewall configuration. To make prints of
> these pages looks somewhat old-fashioned to me.
>
> /gustav
>
>
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