Hi Chris,
Have you had a look at gsnmp? It does something like that.
On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Henesy, Chris A. wrote:
| Hello All,
|
| My name is Chris Henesy and I am a senior CS major at the Georgia
|Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. I am writing to offer an
|idea that some friends and I have been discussing for awhile and to see if
|there as any interest in our pursuing it before we begin.
|
| My friends and I will soon be required to begin our senior
|design/development project. We are all Linux users and have a desire to do
|an open source/Linux project to fulfill this requirement. One idea that we
|had was a graphical network configuration program. The idea works like
|this: You have a blank drawing page onto which you can drag and drop icons
|depicting different network equipment (Cisco Routers, Bay Networks Hubs,
|etc.) You can then connect these icons with arrows representing different
|physical wiring, or network routes. [ So far this kinda sounds like what
|you can do with, Dia Huh? :) ] The arrows have properties that you can
|assign such as protocol type, direction, address range, etc. But here is
|the show stopper... When your diagram is finished, you can click a button
|that will cause a file to be written for each of the devices in the diagram.
|These files contain the configuration commands necessary to configure each
|piece of equipment as it appears in the diagram. The program will know the
|proper command syntax for each piece of equipment so that these config files
|can be directly loaded into the routers.
|
| If we were to try to start from scratch to write this program, we
|would have to worry about a lot of messy details such as creating the
|drawing area and such and would duplicate a lot of work already done on Dia.
|Since Dia is already an open source program capable of some limited network
|drawings, we figured our best bet would be to extend the network drawing
|diagram type in Dia.
|
| So what do you think? Does this sound like a good idea? IS Dia the
|right starting point for this project? Does any of what we proposes sound
|difficult in Dia?
|
| Thanks!
| Chris Henesy
