Over-all map of connects?

[Ollie]

Firstly - I wanted to say that this is an awesome project, I am a first time user, took me a few cracks at getting 2.3.3 running, but now that I have it is so nice to have.

I don't think there is currently functionality for this, if there is I do apologize. I did look because I swore I had seen it, but I must have been wrong. Now that I am connecting servers via interfaces to switch. Also switch to switch. Is there no way of getting any network maps or diagrams to show the inter-connects?

I appreciate this is not a monitoring tool and Im not trying to do this. Just to get a graphical view somehow of a set of connections made.

Cheers, 

Ollie

[Brian Candler]

On Thursday, 14 June 2018 07:59:00 UTC+1, Ollie wrote:

Now that I am connecting servers via interfaces to switch. Also switch to switch. Is there no way of getting any network maps or diagrams to show the inter-connects?

Yes - but I'm afraid it's not very good.

The functionality you're looking for is called topology maps.   You create one or more maps inside the "Admin" section. You need to provide a list of regular expressions to match the device names you want on each row of your map.  For example:

gw

sw|modem

.

will put all devices that have "gw" in their name on the top row; all devices with "sw" or "modem" in their name on the second row; and all other devices on the third row.  The topology map is then visible under the site you associated it with, or it can be a global (top-level) map, and will show the links between the devices (but the ports are not labelled).

There was a third-party add-on which someone created as an alternative, but I've not tried it myself:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/netbox-discuss/MRp0I6nS5xc

[Brian Candler]

Aside: someone recently pointed me at this:

http://go.drawthe.net/

https://github.com/cidrblock/drawthe.net

It produces much nicer network diagrams than graphviz, although it does require manual X/Y placement.

Some sort of Netbox integration would be very cool, although it will still be necessary to store the X/Y locations for each diagram generated.  Perhaps the upcoming tags functionality could be used to select and group objects.

[Howard Jones]

It's also possible to give graphviz hints for x/y placement. I looked at
this a while back for generating network weathermaps without having to
lay them out. Speaking of which, netbox should have enough information
to generate those, too, given a consistently named source of stats data.

[Ollie]

Very interesting, thanks for that info! That would be a nice addition.