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. -----Original Message----- From: cisco-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of John Neiberger Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2010 12:11 PM To: cisco-nsp@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? _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/