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Article #12Re: Network documentation tool
From: Moritz Hoefer
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 14:10
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 14:10
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Oliver Meister schrieb: > Guy Corbaz tat schreiben : > > >>Dear all, >> >>I'm in charge of the design of a large LAN environment consisting of > > 700 > >>LANs and 3000 switches. >> >>I'm looking for a tool that allows my team and me to store central >>documentation in the first step for the design, then for the > > operations. > >>This tool should be able to: >> >>- Manage VLANs >>- Manage IP subnets configured in the switches >>- Manage IP addresses configured in the switches (allocation done by >>another tool) >>- Manage port usage of the switches (what is connected to the switch) >>- Generate work orders/config templates >>- Calculate power request >>- Calculate air conditionning requirment >> >>The tool don't need to be graphical and don't need to scan the network >>equipment. >> >>Does anyone have an idea about a products that could fulfil partly or >>completely my needs ? >> >>I do apreciate your support and thank you for you help. >> >>Best regards, Guy Corbaz >>Professional Services Consultant >>Equant Communications Services >> > > > Hi > > I am a bit surprised to read such a request from our main network > provider... > > Anyway. You may not find everything in on software. > I like etheral [1] to analyze the network as such. > > Beside that status of active network components can be red with an SNMP > tool. You should be able to configure certain things with SNMP too. Just > ask google. > > For the calculations of power consumptions has to be calculated from an > engineer as it varies as well as the size of air condition. > The size of the air conditioning can be done from your vendor. > > HTH > > Kind Regards > Oliver > > > > [1] > http://www.ethereal.com/ > > Microsoft Visio 2000 Enterprise Edition has this Feature. It's possible to Create Network documentations and maps with SNMP Questions automaticly. greets
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