Re: [opennms-devel] manaully draw a map

2017-05-16 Thread Markus von Rüden
Hey Tim, yes this is possible. Internally it is called the “GraphMLTopologyProvider” which basically takes a XML formatted file and render it. How to create this file is documented in detail: http://docs.opennms.org/opennms/releases/19.1.0/guide-development/guide-development.html#_topology

Re: [opennms-devel] manaully draw a map

2017-05-16 Thread tliu
Hi Markus, Thank you very much! I already tried out with GraphMLTopologyProvider based on opennms-demo project. It is a nice way to draw a map. I know there are some NMS which allows to draw a map with diagram( flat or hierarchy). "writing a xml for a network topology" is a litt

Re: [opennms-devel] manaully draw a map

2017-05-16 Thread David Hustace
> On May 16, 2017, at 7:21 AM, tliu wrote: > > "writing a xml for a network topology" is a little bit time consuming, > compared with diagram. Perhaps you could provide an example? Finally, I would say that it would be nearly impossible to model any complex topology of relationships and laye

Re: [opennms-devel] manaully draw a map

2017-05-16 Thread tliu
Hi David, Thank you very much for your comments! I am working on a transition/demo from SNMPc(castle Rock Computing) to openNMS. It is hard to tell my employer will be happy with openNMS. With SNMPc, you can manually draw a flat diagram for a simple network, and hierarchy diagram f