Greetings One & All

Anyone got any thoughts or experience with presenting a documented network
on the web?

Up till now I've been exporting Visio to a single jpg, but it occurs to me
there must be a better way.

Of course, there are several possible 'views'. There's the physical
location - cabinet, building etc. Then there's the logical view of each
LAN - some servers are on more than one.

Just wondering - even massaging the data into a usable form would be a
good start

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William Tasso

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And lo, William Tasso didst speak in alt.www.webmaster:

Perhaps try SVG? Who else is using the output? Could you get them
all to use Opera?

Grey

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erm yes but it's more fundamental than that I think.

oh yes - not many folk at all. At present, aside from me, just a few
support bods and some management types. I may expand on the available
data to include rudimentary stats and possibly 'last-known' status data so
I guess the audience could slowly expand to include some customer reps -
but yes, I suspect they can all be shoved in the direction of Opera
without too much pain.

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William Tasso

whither a trophy?

"William Tasso" <SpamBlocked@tbdata.com> wrote:

I recall having seen something, somewhere, that did all the good stuff
you're looking for. It might have been one of those zillion "IBM
Internal Use Only" thingies. I'll crank up a remember-it thread on
the back burner and see what I can come up with. No promises.

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"William Tasso" <SpamBlocked@tbdata.com> wrote in message
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I'd like a similar tool; I haven't searched exhaustively but nor have I
found anything that suits (or indeed works) - in fact I too use Visio/Jpg.
So I'd be interested to hear what you find out.

Chris

PS. A Dirk Gently fan?

William Tasso wrote:
"The Visual Display of Quantitative Information"
"Envisioning Information"
"Visual Explanations"?

I suspect you'll still be stuck with images, but consider going to
2 to 4 color png or gif images to make downloads faster. There are
plenty of tools to create such images.

William Tasso wrote:

SVG. Piece of cake. SVG for the interconnections, simple bitmaps for
pieces of kit. Dead easy, and XML friendly so you can make it with
almost any tools.

Visio has a COM interface which is programmatically accessible from
your favourite hacking tool (Perl round here). However trying to use it
re-defines blecherous and it's bad enough to make it impractical.

mbstevens wrote:
I once had the job of automating a laser lab out of the back of a PC.
There were dozens of flappers and irises and whatnot, plus things like
the digital ocelloscopes and thermostats that all had to work together
and in the right sequences.

I made huge hand drawn maps on my office walls. Management loved it.

And lo, mbstevens didst speak in alt.www.webmaster:

There usually are.

Grey

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