On 2012-05-09 08:28 , Tobias Brunner wrote:

Hi SwiNOG List

Is anyone using Netdot and has experience with it? https://osl.uoregon.edu/redmine/projects/netdot

I'm looking for a tool to automatically document our network topology, including CDP information, spanning-tree, vlans, mac addresses, IPv4 and IPv6 and so on. And Netdot looks very promising!

Also check http://www.netdisco.org/

Greets, Jeroen

On 05/09/2012 08:28 AM, Tobias Brunner wrote:

I'm looking for a tool to automatically document our network topology, including CDP information, spanning-tree, vlans, mac addresses, IPv4 and IPv6 and so on. And Netdot looks very promising!

I've been using nedi[1] for quite some time now and found it really useful to automatically discover what's going on in a Cisco network.

This tool is mostly meant for gathering data like interface status, VLANs, ARP and MAC tables, configurations and so on. You give it a SNMP community, SSH access to your devices and let it fill its database automatically. It is not really meant to be an authoritative source of data like an IP address management tool or so.

I would have loved to have its author presenting at on of the previous swinog edition but it unfortunately didn't happened. Perhaps next time if there's enough interest.

Cheers,

François

[1] http://www.nedi.ch/