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Re: Network documentation tool

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From: Moritz Hoefer
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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From: Moritz Hoefer <moritz_hoefer@bluewin.ch>
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Subject: Re: Network documentation tool
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