Information architecture is usually the type of information/data that the company acquires/stores - it's taxonomy, usage, flow paths, classification etc.
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of J- P Sent: Saturday, 31 January 2015 7:22 AM To: NT Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Diagram/Desc of IT I'm liking the dude http://www.mikrotik.com/thedude (thanks ASB) just started running it, and although the mapping/diagram is not working for the remote sites, it is still getting an inventory of the devices- all i need to do now is move/drag the remote devices where they belong ________________________________ From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Diagram/Desc of IT Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 19:45:34 +0000 Maybe stick a list of things into excel and then go to the diagramming facility Or build a database with entity sets being shown as tables and get that diagrammed Or a freeware brainstorming layout facility. Without actually being told what they mean, it is obvious that you are going to fail whatever you do - not flexible enough not pretty enough not cheap enough not good enough not fast enough not big enough JimB From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Daniel Chenault Sent: Friday, January 30, 2015 6:39 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Diagram/Desc of IT That's so vague and could mean lots of things. I'm betting they mean a Visio to include VLANs and what is on them and the ACLs between them. Could get real complex the more you read into it. On Jan 30, 2015, at 10:36, "J- P" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: That was my thought, but since i don't even know the origin of the request, I was just forwarded the request. Thanks ________________________________ From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 13:31:05 -0500 Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Diagram/Desc of IT To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> That's a vague request... Seems like some context is missing. If the question is merely about diagrams and inventory, then see: http://www.mikrotik.com/thedude ASB http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker<http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker> Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations & Information Security) for the SMB market... On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 1:24 PM, J- P <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi all, I've been asked by a company that I do support for to get this information; "Diagram or description of information architectural design" I'm hoping there's some software that I can install and get quick topology diagram Environment is 2008/20012 6 sites tunneled together but only about 100 devices Thanks
