Re: Using Dia for auto network mapping tool ?

[Aaron Trevena <aaron trevena gmail com>]

2009/8/14 T.J. Yang <tj_yang hotmail com>:
> I have Xymon(Hobbit) system monitoring tool to monitor thousands of machines in different LANs and WANs.
> Dynamic generation of network maps upon adding and deleting of machines will be a great time saver.
>
> Both the GUI(for human) and command line(for script) ability to create diagrams for network maps looks very 
> feasible.
> ...
> Currently I am studying  mysql2dia.pl script at http://sql2dia.sourceforge.net/

You might want to look at autodia too :
http://search.cpan.org/dist/Autodia/, it's perl and output dia XML
using a template.

The tricky bit is laying out the diagram :
http://search.cpan.org/~pasky/Graph-Layderer-0.02/ should help, and
there is a nice simple spring graph implementation at
http://www.chaosreigns.com/code/springgraph/dl/springgraph.pl

Hope that's helpful.

A.

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