Network map

[laf]

@acidsas commented on Wed Sep 16 2015

Right now we use FPinger to draw a network map and provide visual and audio alerts to support personnel. Cacti for graphing. I would like to move to librenms completely. So a map with devices and links added by hand would be awesome. We also have some web managed switches, which do not support snmp.

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@laf commented on Tue Sep 22 2015

This is possible but needs work, you can store the coordinates using visjs which is what we use for the new style map.

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@gelato commented on Mon Sep 28 2015

Agreed, it would be cool to supply a way to manually draw a network topology map, maybe based on already drawn auto-map.

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@khobbits commented on Mon Oct 05 2015

I thought it would be nice to be able to do the same, after a bit of web searching I stumbled on this: https://github.com/librenms-plugins/Weathermap

When adding a 'node' you get to select from the devices in LibreNMS, and when adding a link, it asks you which interface on the device you want to use for the 'usage'.

While the 'editor' is a bit clumsy I created a map with about 22 nodes, with the relevant links in less than an hour.

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@gelato commented on Mon Oct 05 2015

It's quite ugly, buggy and might eventually just stop working. I'd love to see the same solution from LibreNMS's authors, because now LibreNMS's network map is unusable - once you add enough nodes it becomes one big not informative mess. I'd love to see node grouping, sorting, static placement of nodes according to network core, basically i'd love to see usable network map.

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@khobbits commented on Mon Oct 05 2015

I was thinking the single best improvement is to graph 'groups', rather than just every node. That way I could add the devices I wanted to see to a group, and reduce the clutter. At 66 switches, the resulting diagram is already becoming unreadable. The idea of saving a layout is cool, but it would probably require a more complicated graphing system.

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@joseaugustocardoso commented on Mon Sep 12 2016

I think that Cisco NeXt UI can be useful, its a topology framework https://developer.cisco.com/site/neXt/

[laf]

Are you going to be adding the support for it or asking for us to do it?

[brokerdavelhr]

i would like to take a stab at this. My map looks pretty darn good as is - but being able to tweak would be nice. Wanting to contribute something useful - I am game. I know how to manipulate data on a basis level, and a little coding on the side. In short- not much. Where is the best place to start this endeavour? If I can get a good place to start, and a hair of how - I can do the rest.

[laf]

This repo is no longer maintained, I'll archive it off.

I'd suggest you joining our discord server or post on the community forum: https://docs.librenms.org/#Support/