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by tim marshall - houston

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Does anyone know of any tools that can aid in mapping out the topology of a network and an AD Forest structure. I am about to inherit a network with little or no documentation and I may need some tools to accomplish this. Thanks.

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by isys

3Com had a pretty good free tool called Network Supervisor (be sure to get Service Pack 2 also). They want your info to download it but they haven't bothered me after I got it.

by tex'n

Check out Computer Associate's website. They have a number of enterprise level management tools for different platforms. One product that looks like it'll do the job (and then some) is their Unicenter Advanced Network Operations pack.

http://ca.com/

Best of luck!

by pan 13 x

ecora can do windows configuration and they also have a documentation for exchange servers also.
web site is www.ecora.com they have a limited trail version for 5 servers/workstations the software isn't very costly also.
Visio Enterprize additionis also a very good tool for generating diagrams you can modify they we you are done. Ecora works with visio to generate diagrams and does a wonderful job , It has saved me days of work.

by w2k mcse

Visio enterprise edition has an automater that will go out and sniff your network and document it automatically. You need SNTP to be working.

by joshua1

I like What's Up Gold. It will discover your devices and create a map. After that, you can set up monitoring and alerting on the devices and most services you want to watch. It's a pretty good tool, I bought it last week. http://www.ipswitch.comand hit the Network Management link. I like Visio, too. I use 'em both. If I could only keep one...I'd keep WhatsUp Gold, though.

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