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Vizualization of network with the help of ConceptDraw

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Use it for:

  • graphics for Internet traffic statistics
  • vizual calculation of the network cost
  • diagrams of available network resources
  • organizational diagrams
  • domain maps
  • vizualization of any other data

Network directors, system administrators, automatic control system-specialists, specialists on electronic document exchange... People of these professions need, by the nature of their occupation, information on the enterprise network in various representations. As in many other cases, it is vizualization of information that helps a specialist to simplify the process of decision making. And here, such tool as ConceptDraw can come to aid.

Why ConceptDraw, and which possibilities does the program provides?

ConceptDraw makes easier the process of vizualization of the network thanks to the numerous ready-to-use objects included in the package for presentation of network equipment, LDAP Directory symbols and many other objects which symbolize resources in most various representation.

Smart connectors make easier a displaying of interconnections among the diagram elements: once you interconnected the symbols of the devices, they will remain connected even if you shift either of them.

Benefits:

  • a set of templates and libraries with ready-to-use objects
  • powerful graphic capabilities (2D-graphics)
  • support of hyperlinks
  • numerous export formats
  • scripting language ConceptDraw Basic
  • possibility to use external shared libraries
  • 4 open text formats
  • XML support
  • support of ODBC-compatible databases
  • multilateral parametrization of objects
  • cross-platform (Mac, PC)

For division of different network levels you can draw diagrams on several layers and show/hide the layers depending on the necessity. Another variant of layer division that can be realized in ConceptDraw is a creation of a multi-page document connected by hyperlinks.

ConceptDraw objects allow to save arbitrary detailed information on the equipment in the user's properties of the object (Custom Properties).

Rich possibilities on the setting of the text properties and ready-to-use objects for creation of a background allow to beautifully design diagrams, and the set of supported export formats (various vector and raster graphic formats: PDF, Power Point, Flash, HTML (with hyperlinks) simplify the process of information exchange with your colleagues and business partners.

A good step in (the degree of utility) of ConceptDraw was made after the appearance of ConceptDraw Basic - the inbuilt scripting language of ConceptDraw. The typical task for ConceptDraw Basic is to automate the vizualization of some data. This data can be obtained in the result of work of an arbitrary application (including ConceptDraw-script) and saved in a text file, ODBC- compatible base or in one of the open formats supported by ConceptDraw. In the first two cases further on data will be read and outlined with the help of ConceptDraw Basic. In case of use of a ConceptDraw open format (Flow Data Format, Outline, XML for ConceptDraw or XML for Visio) can open the obtained document in ConceptDraw, add design details and get a presentable diagram. Possibilities of ConceptDraw Basic greatly increase at using the functions in the script which are exported by the shared libraries.

Here are several examples on the ideas of automation that may attract specialists planning and tracking the work of computer networks.

Organization Chart Wizard

At planning of the network for tracking information traffic with the aim of localization of the traffic you need vizual information on the company structure. It can be presented,for example, as an organizational chart. In ConceptDraw V there has been added Organization Chart Wizard, which allows to automatically build an organization chart of the company on the information saved in a text file or in ODBC-compatible database. At this any properties necessary for you can be recorded by the wizard in the object custom properties. Work on collection and outlining of data is done by basic script, besides for dialog communication with the user the function exported by the external library is used.

network equipment

Having created the network diagram on the level of the devices used and having assigned the cost of the devices in the object custom properties you can, with the help of simple CDBasic-script evaluate the cost of the solution obtained. Such a script can accelerate planning of the equipment for the future network or upgrading the existing one. For users' convenience ConceptDraw library objects, representing the network equipment are already supplied with many typical characteristics (producer, serial number, premises...), but you can always add new ones, needed for a specific task. Note that in such a case there is no need in interaction between ConceptDraw Basic with the external libraries, as well as in temporary saving of information in some file or DB.

network structure

Another variant is a solution which analyzes the status of the already existing network at the moment and displays shared resources available at this moment. For analysis of information an external function is used. The result of its work is XML-file with the data on the network structure. Further this file is read and outlined by own means of ConceptDraw Basic. (Such an instance is displayed. See it).

 

Statistic graphic of Internet traffic per month

In the package there is also an example (it can be found in the file ...Samples\Solutions\Diagraming\JointGraph), which builds statistics graphics of Internet traffic per month (for each day and from the beginning of the month). The data is read from the text file.

 

The support of a number of open formats, a possibility of interaction with files and with ODBC-compatible databases and the ability of ConceptDraw Basic to call the functions exported by the external shared libraries opens wide opportunities for building most various solutions in the field of data vizualization. And such a subject field as planning and management of networks is capable of presenting a large number of tasks, awaiting to be solved within the given technology.

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