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RE: Reconstructing network topology maps
From: "Ross, George" <george.ross () atlahq org>
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 08:52:15 -0400
There is a great product on the market that does an amazing job with what your looking for. It is part of a suite of products and become very costly but well worth it, if your company can afford it. Go to the site and you will it under products and the one for what you are seeking is modeler, which to use it requires you to purchase several base products, but this software is amazing, you can even change routing tables and correct errors it finds through the software. I highly recommend it, if you can afford it. They also have an annual week long (free)(just hotel and air you have to pick up) (they provide meals and all) conference that you can attend in August and located in Washington, DC. www.opnet.com Let me know what you think and if you found it helpful. -----Original Message----- From: Tenorio, Leandro [mailto:LTenorio () intelaction com] Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 12:04 AM To: Ramon Szmuk Cc: security-basics () securityfocus com Subject: RE: Reconstructing network topology maps Ramon, There are several products that do those things, one of the most used in Telcos, most of them base on SUN or HP, is HP OpenView, it's uses SNMP, for topology gattering, for both Level 2 and 3. It also do system monitoring and any SNMP data GET you set it. But, at least in my knowledge, you can't export to visio. There are other tools like solarwids that do similar things, actualy Visio 2002 Net Architect, do something similar. Hope this helps. -----Original Message----- From: Ramon Szmuk [mailto:ramonsm () netvision net il] Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 2:40 AM To: security-basics () securityfocus com Subject: Reconstructing network topology maps I am currently looking for a software that can generate (reconstruct) a network topology from raw data obtained from live network capturing or offline tcpdump capture files. A co-worker told me he once saw a commercial product belonging to SUN Microsystems on a Teleco that doe's just that but I couldn't find it through my frantic googling today... He said they hooked it up to a Switch of a lab network and slowly the app reconstructed a graphical display of the network as seen from the switch, amazing! It was then possible to export the drawing to VISIO or see it with the program's built-in viewer. It mapped routers, servers, workstations, printers, computed bandwidth! and just about every device on the net, keeping all of the information about them (Hardware type, IP, MAC address etc..) in an SQL-server database for future map genereation and data recovery direct from the db. the software parsed a variety of protocols in order to recunstruct the network, SNMP, telnet (it parsed basic router configurations!!), BGP, ICMP and so on... If anybody has heard of this software (supposedly by SUN Microsystems and built in Java) or anything remotley similar, It would be great if you drop me a line since I am looking for such a toy for quite some time.. Thanks, -Ramon Szmuk ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- Ethical Hacking at the InfoSec Institute. Mention this ad and get $545 off any course! All of our class sizes are guaranteed to be 10 students or less to facilitate one-on-one interaction with one of our expert instructors. 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Current thread:
- Reconstructing network topology maps Ramon Szmuk (Jun 16)
- Re: Reconstructing network topology maps Bob Radvanovsky (Jun 17)
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- RE: Reconstructing network topology maps Tenorio, Leandro (Jun 17)
- RE: Reconstructing network topology maps Ross, George (Jun 18)
- Re: Reconstructing network topology maps nee cee (Jun 18)
- RE: Reconstructing network topology maps BĂ©noni MARTIN (Jun 18)
- RE: Reconstructing network topology maps gs (Jun 21)