Exporting Details of Servers into Visio Drawing

Getting data from SQL to Visio is pretty easy if you have the right version of Visio, and it doesn't require creating an intermediate file. The following versions of Visio can read data directly from SQL and many other data sources:
-- Visio 2007 Professional
-- Visio 2010 Professional
-- Visio 2010 Premium

It is possible to get data into other versions of Visio, but it's a lot more work.

Here are four tutorials on data linking, and it's companion feature, data graphics:
-- http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/training/redir/RZ010197743.aspx
-- http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/training/link-data-to-diagrams-ii-data-graphics-RZ010197933.aspx
-- http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/training/link-data-to-diagrams-iii-position-your-data-graphics-RZ010198161.aspx
-- http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/training/link-data-to-diagrams-iv-link-data-automatically-RZ010198195.aspx
It's the first and last that are specifically about data linking.

Each of the links above leads to a recorded tutorial. If you'd like one page with printed instructions, try this one:
-- http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/visio/HA100487831033.aspx?pid=CH100991461033   

As far as placing shapes on the page, Visio doesn't do that for you automatically. It's possible to write a macro to accomplish that, although the macro can range from quite simple to very complex depending on your data and what you want the map to look like.

Another place to look: go to http://visiotoolbox.com/2010/ and click the tab for "Visio for Managing IT" in the center of the page. This will give you some ideas about what Visio 2010 can do out of the box. On the same site there are Visio partner companies that offer Visio add-ins that do create network maps automatically. You'll find several here: http://visiotoolbox.com/2010/partner-product-trials.aspx

A very useful piece of information .Thanks Scott. But do you have any simple macro that we can try on ?

thanks