Though I do have Visio, I was looking for a software solution...not a hardware solution. Fluke makes some incredible products...too bad you have to have such a huge budget to afford any of their products!
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Browse All TopicsI'm looking for some software that can run in a win32 environment with domain administrative rights that can auto-discover the network it's on and produce a graphical map of the network. Cheops is sort-of what I'm looking for except that it runs on linux and I was never quite able to make it work right.... Anybody know any other suggestions?
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Try NetViz. This is a good software solution. http://www.netviz.com/home
Mohawk1
Maybe not as good as Fluke, but will give you a decent starting point if you have to do you own is the Advanced LAN Scanner.
http://www.radmin.com/down
Fluke's LANMapShot is software only solution...
http://www.flukenetworks.c
What's up Gold does auto-discovery and creates a map for you
http://www.ipswitch.com
AdRem NetCrunch does a pretty good job of auto-discovery.
http://www.adremsoft.com/n
3Com Network Supervisor is another option. It's a bit older but still does a decent job. They offer a 60 day trial.
http://www.3com.com/produc
Try "public" and/or "private"
These are the two default strings. Anything else would be a wild guess.
and/or use a sniffer to capture the strings. They are un-encrypted.
These are definately needed for SNMP discovery, but not necessary for ICMP (ping) discovery.
Windows Workstations do not have SNMP enabled by default, and neither do most servers.
In WhatsUp, for example, you can specify multiple levels of discovery from ICMP only to ICMP+SNMP
Are you the administrator of your network? If you are then it's not a problem. Just telnet onto your devices and look in the configuration for the snmp read/write community strings. If these are public/private then you need to change these from a security perspective. If you are not the network administrator then you will need to speak to who is. They will probably be quite strict on giving this information out, depending on your organisation of course.
Mohawk1
yea public and private were already in those programs as defaults to be tried and they didn't work. I'll try running the ping sweeps instead of SNMP.
re:Visio Enterprise, they have a visio 2003 resouce kit that provides such functionality...i think they are asking $199 or $299 for it....
and yes, I have administrative rights on the domain ... ill look into that
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by: PeteLongPosted on 2005-01-10 at 07:59:34ID: 13003990
FLuke Network Inspector 5 can do this if its installed with Visio - though when you see how much it costs you may reconsider?