Show us your map design

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.

376 devices
about 1500+ probes
about 500+ snmp links
And yet hanging/stop monitoring sometimes...

Impressive maps you have here
My first map (not really useful). Then each country has his own map depending on the number of sites

here is out map of our ISP in USA

Our main map which links to many sub maps

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.

I would like to add another map of mine, I was planning to enhance the layout, but time was no on my side. So here it is.

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.

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.

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...

~375 devices total
this is our main map with each building as a submap
circles are buildings, rectangles are wireless bridges

yay

Awesome work people!

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.

Here is our map, not fully up to date but getting there..

Here's our map... we have it permanently displayed on a large plasma screen in the corner of our support office...

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.

Simple Map with all the links, with sub-nets which are our highsites

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.

Can anyone tell me how to get my network map on google earth or similar mapping software

Thanks

Richard

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)

I did my map just editing and merging some screenshots of maps.google.com

Thanks for the info, I will give it a go when I have some spare time.

Richard

Hi aea9tthompson

I was wonder if you could show me how you get your ping average on the dude map ?

My Wee Hotspot network in Queenstown.

Where does everyone get their maps from?

I currently just export a large map from Google Earth but I don't want all the satellite imagery.

However I do want a large area map with street details.

umm, how about "google maps" ?

Is there a good way to go a detailed street view of a large square area from Google Maps?

yes, search google for "google map tile downloader" or something like that

this is not the map which I use at work, most did this on the actual locations of the map, my network across the whole state, I want to remove as many hosts the map scale and very small. ta it is messy, most thought it was cool =) excuse my bad English ..

Here is my map, and thanks a lot for the Dude:

I also would like to display ping time on map and have not been able to.

Anyone can help?

Привет NOA! Какой VoIP используете, и через какие девайсы мониторите электропитание?

Войп - asterisk, питание - пинг до железки подключенной мимо упса. (:

...The actual resolution is 5000x4000 for the map...

What is the ideal size for a Dude map? I tried print screen but only got a small resolution, it appears Dude vertical resolution in region of 2400 pixels and maybe 2200 down.

Edit:
I have been informed by our designer that I should print screen on dual screen configuration in Google Maps, I suppose thereafter I have to stitch the pictures.

Customized Probes for many TCP Services and build and compile an entire new graphic gallery with about 500 icons Network-Servers-Developer-IT related images.
Also with SC-FI - SFX alert sounds..

This is another one of my maps, just a little funny:)

Now if that thing could only take us off this rock.

This is what happens when you are too lazy to update dude.

a small map that shows capacity of E1 voice links to different providers we have links with from cisco voice gateways. Not much but my first map
It's more more meshed from the gateways to the softswitches so the if you do count the numbers they do not match but it's ok its just a logical map

one of my maps, not unusual but beautiful and practical for me

Hi to all

Guys,

I am on cisco network environment not mikrotik. I am trying to see if i can use dude to monitor the cisco network, but it could not detect any device on the network.

Please how would i make it work?

Thanks

Set snmp settings correctly on the dude to match snmp on the cisco's.

Here is my map:

one of my dude servers for small WISP.

@Muhammad,

How do you find the data usage and load on your server with all that data collection?

I don't know if Muhammad is subscribed to this thread but here is what my server is up to... W2k3 sp2. It is amazing monitoring uses such little bandwidth. You can see where I logged in this morning and the extra utilization.

The services count can be seen by going to the services list and clicking in the drop down. ~450 devices
I added about 500 services last month and interestingly enough I have less false positives than before.
1/2 of the probes are set to 2 minute intervals. APC seem to crash at 30 second interval.

Rather basic map done for one of our contracts, would have had rf input power charted but Nera never got off their lazy asses to send the snmp mib for their gear. All icons on this map are links to submaps.

I should note that the network is still being deployed. And is not yet in production.

Hi all, here's our hotel hotspot network:

Hi IT Professionals,

Kindly I need to know if I can run the Dude software just under a domain, without installing the mickroTik, and please advise if it shouldn be run in server, or client, as I tried to run the Dude, but getting nothing, Please I need to get the map of my network.


Thanks in advance,
Khalid.

you don't need to install mikrotik routeros, to run the dude. it's a simple windows program.

Some customized probes used in this map:

Voice / Speak Alert on various target / devices down/up events
NOC Room temperature (It alerts when temperature goes above 25)
Vmware ESXi 4.0 Guest VM Power ON/Shutdown from Dude using Tool Menu with customized scripts*
UPS Load / Voltages / UPS Internal Temperature
IBM Lotus Number of Mail Waiting / DB Connected Users / Availability Index
HP Printers Toner Remaining in %
No. of Connected Users on each A.P
Disk Free/Total Statics, Alerts when Specified partition goes above 90%
Disk Read/Write Monitoring / Alert
High Memory Monitoring Alert
Windows Service Monitor on SAP Servers
Cisco ASA / Switches CPU Load/ Up-time / Temperature
Cisco Access Point Active Connected Users
Wireless Link Usage Monitoring
Internet / LAN Link Monitor, If the link is in full utilization i.e 4mb, the link color changes to Orange, indicating Load on the link. very useful to monitor load.

Mikrotik’s “The DUDE” LIVE Monitoring System , It shows Live View of all devices and server’s on screen, Auto Refreshes at defined intervals,

GREEN icon shows target is Active & Healthy,
ORANGE shows one or more probes failed to poll query any specific counter/oid,
RED means the target device is not reachable via network or powered off.

With some my of my Customized Advance Monitoring Probes Like UPS Temperature, KESC Voltages IN , NOC Room Temperature, HDD Monitor, I have also made some Custom Alerts, For Example if NOC Room Temperature Goes above 25 Degree, It will show Visual Alert, Email or SMS. or if D: drive space on mail server goes above 80% it will alert me, If a targeted service on specific server stop, it visually alerts. Voice Speak Alert for various counters.

Very good and advance Monitoring System, It can Shutdown and POWER ON any system on MAP using tools and custom scripts, Also I have added some customize tools/scripts to run on target device using custom command , added in tool menu.

We call it CNMS, Centralized Network Monitoring System
Thanks to Mikrotik DUDE

Here is one of our maps. Its not as creative as some but it makes sense to us and that's all that matters!

A little part of network.


Over 600 routers, over 1500 snmp links.

Hi all!

I don't understand - are you add all links between network devices manually?
When I run discovery, all devices are connected to IP clouds.

this

I tried The Dude a couple times a few years ago, but at the time it really didn't get me as jazzed up as I was hoping. I recently tried it again less than two weeks ago and am blown away by how awesome this software is! I just spent a little over a week building out our network here, and I look forward to tweaking it more in the weeks to come. I'm including a low res screenshot of it so you can get the gist of the size of our network, and how awesome The Dude was in enabling me to build a visual layout of everything.

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