OpenSource network design tools?

[tarn]

I’m looking for something that would do basically what NetVis or Visio would do (drawing, mapping or designing network & infrastructure layout).

Anyone have any experience of an OpenSource project that would do this or even Freeware on Win32?

Thanks in advance,
Laurie.

 

[edemiere]

Try looking around linux.org or maybe even sourceforge.net?

I've never done this, but those would probably be two good starting points to look at what folks are doing and such.

Good luck!

 

[miblo]

StarOffice might be worth checking. I think it has PowerPoint-like features. (If you can consider that a network-design tool)

Mind you, I don't know how many network diagrams I have seen that were created in PowerPoint... They're in abundance.

 

[fluid11]

dia (for GNOME) and kivio (for KDE) might work.

http://www.thekompany.com/projects/kivio/

http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/

Here's dia's RPM description...

Description :
The Dia drawing program is designed to be like the Microsoft(R) Visio
program. Dia can be used to draw different types of diagrams, and
includes support for UML static structure diagrams (class diagrams),
entity relationship modeling, and network diagrams. Dia can load and
save diagrams to a custom file format, can load and save in .xml
format, and can export to PostScript(TM).



ChrisP

 

[usige]

In OpenOffice you can use Draw (oodraw from cmd line). It's like a cross between Visio and PowerPoint. No network device templates though. If you need something for mapping a network (snmp query) try scotty [

http://wwwhome.cs.utwente.nl/~schoenw/scotty/

]

 

[tarn]

Wow! thanks guys .....

That should keep me busy over the UK Bank Holiday then ?
Looks like some very intresting options.

Laurie.

 

[jrjuiliano]

This issue came up recently in the Lockergnome Penguin Shell. Might help you out a bit...

http://www.dee-annleblanc.com/visionewsletter.htm

J.R.