Well "Paper and Pen" is what we use
now. After 3 years, the pages start to get a little hard to read.
And it sucks trying to find an end point that could be on any 1 of 5
pages. It's ok and may still be the best way, but it is time to
redraw the maps, so they are clean. I was just hoping some one had figured
out a good way to do it.
Jeff Cook
IT
Technician
Whatcom Educational Credit
Union
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From: Alan Rice [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 1:30 PM
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Subject: Re: [WhatsUp Forum] Wiring MapAnd before PC's I remember using something called "Paper and Pen" to do my network drawings. It was way cool, you had unlimited objects, you could use any size paper, anything you could imagine you could draw. Drill down was done by turning the page. And it didn't even require a mouse!Ahhh, the good ol' days. LOLAlan Rice
Manatee County Government
Information Services
Technical Services Administrator
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Once upon a time I used NetViz
It was amazing in that it let you create "dig down"
projects that could be saved as HTML with image maps.
So you could link them directly into your documentation
pages. You could also put "pop-up" text boxes into the
images.
It was specifically designed for doing network diagrams and
had a wide array of CAD-CAM quality objects such as servers,
routers, racks, cabinets, and such. So you could even get
down to the PCI cards on the back of a server and each
network interface they connected too.
On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 10:59, Matthew Reed wrote:
> Jeff,
>
> Use whatever works for you - in the early days I used Windows PAINT to draw
> networks because it was free and could do better boxes, circles, fills and
> lines FASTER than I could do them freehand.
>
> WUG maps are very handy. AND you are correct - having the two maps
> together can save time when you need to publish something quickly.
>
> Visio is like Paint, only with nitrous oxide and leather seating. I use it
> for many diagrams.
>
> Good luck.
>
> > I use WUG to diagram my network layout. I even use it to map out the
> > location of equipment (i.e.. PC, printers). That way I have both
> monitoring
> > and a physical map tied together. When I change one they are both
> updated.
> > Drawing the floor plan was the only hard part.
> >
> > I need to update my wiring maps. There has been a lot of changes
> > (additions) lately. Right now our maps are by hand in a note book. This
> > makes them hard to read and difficult to get out to the people that need
> > them. So
> >
> > So how are others mapping their wire? I don't think WUG should be used
> for
> > this, but short of Visio I don't have any ideas.
> >
> > Thanks for any input, and sorry for a slight off topic.
> >
> > Jeff Cook
> > IT Technician
> > Whatcom Educational Credit Union
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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