[c-nsp] Network mapping...again

[Justin Krejci]

Very expensive but NetMRI has this functionality and does a good job mapping
out the VLANs, route hops, switch hops, etc. It does a ton of other things
too like change management, alerting, etc. The product is quite powerful but
as I said it is also expensive.

To setup the free trial I, using cattools, adjusted the ACLs to permit ssh
and snmp access from the NetMRI and within 30 minutes it had mapped out
large portions of the network and had begun analyzing them.

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[mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of John Neiberger
Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2010 12:11 PM
To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: [c-nsp] Network mapping...again

We're looking for a dynamic network mapping tool that does not require
a large amount of hand-holding and manpower to manage. I don't care if
this is a free or paid product. Ideally, I'd like something that
autodiscovers the network including L2 and L3 devices, then
intelligently maps them. I used to use Network Node Manager for this
at another job years ago and I liked how it handled mapping. It did
require a few tweaks to get right, but it worked very well. Something
like that would be pretty handy, but we don't need NNM. We just need
the mapping part.

We have too many tools that already require a lot of time to maintain.
I don't want to add another one that is going to take a lot of time. A
reasonable amount of time is expected. I just don't want anything over
time consuming. This is a fairly large network with a large number of
routers and switches, all Cisco.

I just need something that works, and works well, preferably out of
the box. I don't have time to build a grow-your-own solution or piece
together open source stuff.

Any thoughts?
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