On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Adam Armstrong <[email protected]> wrote: > On 21/07/2010 15:27, John Neiberger wrote: >> I used to used HP Network Node Manager at a previous employer and >> thought it did a really good job of automatically mapping the network, >> especially since it handled L3 and L2 discovery well after a bit of >> tweaking. I'm at a new place now and I'm wondering if there are any >> good automated mapping tools out there. I want to focus on Cisco >> routers and switches. I don't need something to map every other device >> on the network, so I'd need to have a good way to filter out >> extraneous stuff. >> >> Any thoughts? >> > > We (Observium - http://www.observium.org) do some mapping based on > cdp/fdp/lldp discovery protocols, but whole network maps tend to be messy > because graphviz isn't ideal. > > Originally it was a major feature, but it's less important now because the > open source mapping tools don't seem to scale or handle networks very well.
hypergraph is pretty good at scaling. http://hypergraph.sourceforge.net/ -matt _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
