Computer network mpas

[grimey121uk]

Just wondering if anyone here is any good with visio or any other drawing software, I have a large home network and i currently use a network management system to keep track of events,

The only thing is my "artistic" skills are some what lacking and my network map is prety crap

Just wondering if anyone has any kind of template lying around that they could share, thanks in advance

Link to my live map - http://www.ants-network.co.uk

[-Ralph-]

Well the diagram you have is easy enough to understand, and looks neat enough to me. Why reinvent the wheel?

[Iansv II]

Looks fine to me...

The diagrams at my old work looked very similar, Easy to follow is better than fancy but hard to understand esp if you need to check something quickly

[Scrawf]

That's your home network? Christ its better than my office network! VLANS? Two Wireless Access Points? Bloody hell! Nice one =D>

[grimey121uk]

I know the digram is easy to follow etc, just fancied something a bit more fancy,

That's your home network? Christ its better than my office network! VLANS? Two Wireless Access Points? Bloody hell! Nice one =D>

It is indeed:) geek alert

[BoltonSte]

Wouldn't exactly say I'm artistic, but I use VISIO at work for process flows so could do something.

See if someone's an expert before I start though, can maybe have a chat about what you'd like at some point.

Ste

[andrewsmith]

Bloody Hell

That does shame a few company networks. The last place I worked ran fibre optics between main inbound lines Servers and switches (not a cheap set up in 1995)

Any changes would compromise the overall security.

[andrewsmith]

Just wondering if anyone here is any good with visio or any other drawing software, I have a large home network and i currently use a network management system to keep track of events,

The only thing is my "artistic" skills are some what lacking and my network map is prety crap

Just wondering if anyone has any kind of template lying around that they could share, thanks in advance

Link to my live map - http://www.ants-network.co.uk

Mate Jepg your net setup your opening yourself to hacking using your domain website.

[grimey121uk]

Mate Jepg your net setup your opening yourself to hacking using your domain website.

How am I ?, the IP addressing of the LAN makes no odds to a hacker as its all private IP addressing hidding behind NAT
Besides that there are only 2 ports exposed both of which are directed at 1 virtual server, the servers network being cut off from my internal network

[andrewsmith]

Remote accessing the network from an external IP.

But once past that it still takes a F*** load of work to get machines

[grimey121uk]

Remote accessing the network from an external IP.

But once past that it still takes a F*** load of work to get machines


What remote IP?

That website is hosted localy, even if it was remotley probing how would that compromise security? I would only need to open 1 port to allow remote polling, and what would a hacker do with that?
At work we have tones of customers who we remotlel poll for SNMP

[Fruity-ya-ya]

yEWrtLkE1c8
Grimey McCould of the clan McCould.

p.s. I'll ask about at work, they have some tools that might help.

[grimey121uk]

yEWrtLkE1c8
Grimey McCould of the clan McCould.

p.s. I'll ask about at work, they have some tools that might help.


:) Cheers

[andrewsmith]

Scratch that mate, misread your set-up.
More secure than my home LAN

[MattCollins]

I use TurboCAD (one of very few Windows apps that I use) for that sort of thing. I guess it comes down to familiarity with an app.

I would have liked to have seen the network map, but it is not working for me.

[grimey121uk]

I use TurboCAD (one of very few Windows apps that I use) for that sort of thing. I guess it comes down to familiarity with an app.

I would have liked to have seen the network map, but it is not working for me.

Strange how it isnt working for you (Its working here fine), i use dynamic dns to map to my IP and some corperate networks tend to block them, are you at work by any chance?

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5042/5252902943_324cc869e6_b.jpg

[MattCollins]

No. It is my own network - mostly personal, but being self employed and an employer it used for work purposes. It connects to the page, but is left hanging.

It is an interesting layout.

[timwilky]

I would dread to map my work network as there are in excess of 60,000 nodes. That aside the home one is fairly simple these days as most of my servers are off a single VM server. except the kids computer, my laptop and the Solaris boxes.

Years ago, I had seperate boxes for redhat, SuSE, at different versions. These days just fire up a VM for whatever I am working on.

But I too have 50Mb virgin. but my upstream is 1.5Mb. Roll on the roll out of 100Mb with the rumoured 10Mb up stream. Finally a speed that people can work with

[grimey121uk]

Finaly got around to drawing a new map - let me know what you think

can be seen live - http://ants-network.co.uk


Preview
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5020/5521956373_d0966a4a29_b.jpg

[hongman]

Grimey

That looks really neat. I literally just downloaded a trial version of PRTG last week to try out, but got sidetracked. All I have done so far is push out remote probes to my client sites.

I didn't even know you could map it so visually like that, hopefully I get some spare time to work it all out in April (by which time my trial will have expired probably lol :D)

[grimey121uk]

Give us a shout if you need any help, how many snmp checks do you need?

[beabert]

That's your home network? Christ its better than my office network! VLANS? Two Wireless Access Points? Bloody hell! Nice one =D>

Think that was the real point of the thread lol.