I would like to suggest a topic as a way to say thanks to the Dude team, and as well to see examples that I am sure we will all learn from.
I will show you one of my maps, and I hope every one does.
Who knows, that can turn into a contest for the best design.
Note: This is about how to layout the network maps, so be careful not display sensitive data that may compromise your security. My advice is to remove sensitive data, that obviously would require some efforts or image editing so you can contribute without comprising your security.
The top page of our setup is a “dashboard” it is all built out of sub maps there are no devices on the dash. The links are from the core with out labels, this keeps it very clean looking. Obviously you can still hover on a link and they change color… On each submap are the devices for each campus. This way there are very few duplicate items and each campus is basically a site document. We will probably add more notes and things to each campus. Maybe a “static” with a list of all the networks for the site or details of important systems.
On the bottom right are 3 live documents which contain complex networks that span campuses, redundant links “bridges” and the voice network. The “firewalls” live document is not done yet. Other diagrams “live documents” are planned to replace our visio versions. In order to keep things clean, redundant links are not shown anywhere except in the bridges live document.
All submaps have the reverse link to the top Dash so we are collecting both directions on all routed links, once from the dash going out and once from the submap coming back. We try to keep from collecting twice on anything… The labels on links are not removed from any submap. All links on the dash that are solid are fast links except for the one dashed radio link and all the dotted links are 3mbps or less.
Total devices in Dude instance: about 300
SNMP Links: 110
Note: The [Interface.InBitRate] thing started after upgrading to 3.0 from 2.2 and I haven’t had time to figure out how to get rid of it. Seems to be when SNMP doesn’t get stats or between polling cycles.
FYI, I see that [Interface.InBitRate] alot when I set the mastering type on the link to routeros. If I stick with SNMP, I don’t have seem to have that problem much.
One of my maps, coverages two buildings.
No snmp-tracking. Just pinging all those devices
Cyan-colored are dump switches, modems and so on.
Black icons are servers and grey - switches.
Seems that the fix was rather simple when I ran into this. For whatever reason, even though you think you have everything setup correctly, SNMP and RouterOS must both have the proper credentials. Check ‘RouterOS’ in settings (and I use secure mode also), and I have always specified the exact SNMP community string rather that use ‘default’, even though it is default. The SNMP version must also be correct. I have found that re-typing the password into the settings page for e.g. admin/password also plays a part.
As I said, these seem obvious, but it cost me a lot of hours until I absolutely made sure everything was correct. If it still doesnt work, and you can afford to lose the history, re-create the device and perform the steps above…
Worked for me, even though I was sure everything was right before I made the changes that turned out to fix the problem…Go figure
Working on removing that ‘secure’ data on some of my maps so I can submit a map to this thread, just commenting on JohnRBB’s problem with the hope it saves him some time…
This isn’t fully completed yet, but will be soon. It’s pretty cool with the inverted map behind it. The actual resolution is 5000x4000 for the map, but this has (obviously) been cut down a lot. The entire map has the whole coverage area on it that we cover and has probably another 40-50 tower locations left to go before it’s completed. We’re still in the process of redesigning the networks that were acquired to get them all to communicate with the Dude server.
In fact I am very glad I started this thread. In every post I can see genius ideas and beautiful layouts. I hope every dude user shares with us their ideas.
Sorry for bad quality.
The image is too large then it will not fit on the screen when the zoom is greater than that.
Our network is not yet complete.
I will post updates as soon as possible.
you can’t do it directly, but you can take screenshots of the maps, stick them together for a larger area, and then use this image as background in The Dude. There are also special software programs that will do this (make the large image)
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