weathermap auto draw network map

[matti]

Hi everyone
I have a question:
Weathermap, can it generated automatically the connection graphs of devices (switchs, firewall) which are monitored by cacti?

I have see a post but the link is unavailable. "about30460.html"

Thanks.

[Howie]

You can write scripts to do it for simple cases, but no.

If you'd like to come up with the rules you think it should follow to draw a map, maybe we can start something...

[matti]

if it's possible to create scripts I'm interested, and if we can go further too.

[Howie]

The config files for weathermap are just text. You can write them using any scripting language - I've made them before now in Excel, perl, python, php etc. I know at least one user uses Visio to output weathermaps!

The hard part is deciding what should be in them automatically, and especially deciding what should be show as a connection.

e.g. Is it devices on the same VLAN? devices that are CDP neighbors? devices on the same subnet? Only *some* devices? (e.g. you want the switch, but not every connected PC)

And then arranging the map so it's not a tangled mess.