[c-nsp] Slightly OT: Network Mapping Tools

[Matt Zagrabelny]

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Adam Armstrong <lists at memetic.org> 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