RE: Using Dia for auto network mapping tool ?

["T.J. Yang" <tj_yang hotmail com>]

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> Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:52:41 +0100
> Subject: Re: Using Dia for auto network mapping tool ?
> From: aaron trevena gmail com
> To: dia-list gnome org
>
> 2009/8/14 T.J. Yang :
> > 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.

Yes, I did check out your autodia perl module, very good module.
Hope you can redesign autodia, so it can become command line cunter-part of GTK dia.

Like you said in your TODO file.

> Redesign Diagram class to be a template class and move much of its logic
> into UMLDiagram class, this would allow AutoDia to handle different types
> of diagram.



> 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.

Yes, this is helpful information.

Thanks for the autodia work.

tj

> A.
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