I have during the years used Visio and/or Dia to create my network diagrams (mainly for documentation) but the graphical tools tends to take more and more time to deal with when you need to rearrange diagrams because you suddently added another device or for that matter when you end up with complex networks with plenty of network connections (that is physical network diagrams) or for that matter plenty of link aggregations - quickly it becomes hard to see which cable goes were (or Im just lacking skillz to properly use visio/dia ;-)
Using something like graphviz is something Im looking forward to but I havent managed to get any good output from this.
Anyone in here using graphviz (or similar that is textbased tool where you define the connections and then "compile" into a pdf or such) successfully and can share good examples?
I recently stumbpled upon the diagrams made by Cumulus on their documentation pages but I dunno if the graphviz reference is purely programmatically (that is they cheated by creating the diagram in Visio anyway) or if the picture shown at "Basic Topology Example" (https://docs.cumulusnetworks.com/display/DOCS/Prescriptive+Topology+Manager+-+PTM) actually is rendered/compiled through graphviz?
If not (that is they cheated) the picture of the topology example is what I would define as a good looking and easy to understand physical network diagram, any of you who knows if its possible to use graphviz to create such?
It doesnt necessary need to have all the coloring (Im happy with black/white rectangular boxes as devices).
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