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What do you make your diagrams with?

draw.io Excalidraw NetDisco
  1. Online diagramming application
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    Diagrams in draw.io or Visio (Dia or raw dot notation) are fine but it is hard to represent a modern network with a 2D graph (vertices and edges). You can show the physical layout but getting the logical layout (VLANs etc) needs multiple sheets or similar.

    #Diagrams #Flowcharts #Wireframing 714 social mentions

  2. Excalidraw is a whiteboard tool that lets you easily sketch diagrams that have a hand-drawn feel to them.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    Excallidraw is pretty good for 'hand-drawn-look' diagrams/sketches.

    #Sketching #Digital Whiteboard #Digital Drawing And Painting 207 social mentions

  3. Netdisco is an Open Source web-based network management tool first released publically in 2003.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    For a decent network map you really need a network mapper and one of the finest has to be Netdisco - http://netdisco.org/. You will need to get CDP/LLDP(etc) and SNMP running everywhere to get the best out of it. Their support mailing list is one of the best.

    #Network Automation #Configuration Auditing #Change Management 16 social mentions

  4. Diagrams lets you draw the cloud system architecture in Python code. It was born for prototyping a new system architecture without any design tools. You can also describe or visualize the existing system architecture as well.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Diagrams #Flow Charts And Diagrams #Software Development 45 social mentions

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