Maybe not the best way but it has worked for me in the past. Enable CDP on all your network devices (Just for a little whlie). Now logon to each record the "CDP neighbor detail" output Pick a router/switch say "core-1" How many CDP neighbors? Which ports are they connected to? Draw these connections on paper this is just a rough draft so a big box with lines and labels is fine. Once you've done that pick one of these neighbors and see what they see and so on. There are I am sure tones of better ways to do this. But when I go somewhere to consult and they don't have clear documentation this is how I get started. I'm very interested to hear what others do.
________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Sami Joseph Sent: Sun 10/28/2007 12:30 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [c-nsp] Network Topology Mapping Hello, I have a corporate network with 6500s as core and 3560s as access, IP phones and a lot of other routers and PIXs. I need to have a full detailed network documentation and mapping of topology because we have such a big network a no documentation which always slows our troubleshooting. I am looking for guidance from you guys on what is the best way/tool/process to do it from your experience? any templates for the documentation? Thanks, Sam _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
