Visio Discovery

[IT Turner Assoc.]

Is there a means to do an auto discovery in Visio 2003?

 

[Al Edlund]

no, it was dropped in v2002. There are addons available from third party
vendors. There is a a simple single site one available in the resource kit.
http://microsoft.order-9.com/visiopro/splash.htm
Al

 

[Senaj Lelic [DE MVP Visio]]

well there are several tools,
it depends what you mean with Auto Discovery:
- Discovering the AD: www.netdocad.com
- discovering the network and components: fluke networks (i think it is
www.flukenetworks.com)
- discovering computers: www.netdocserver.com

 

[extremekicks]

Applies to
Microsoft Office Visio® 2003


Some of you have asked, "How can I import directory services information
(such as an existing Active Directory® directory service structure) with
Visio 2003." Unfortunately, the short answer is that you can't.

This feature was available in the Microsoft Visio Enterprise Network Tools
add-on to Microsoft Visio 2002 and Microsoft Visio 2000 Enterprise Edition,
but it was not carried forward into Visio 2003.

Based on customer feedback, we invested our resources in improving Visio's
other network diagramming tools and in developing new features for a broad
cross-section of customers, like the ability to track comments or publish
diagrams to a Microsoft SharePoint® workspace. The network diagramming
improvements in Visio 2003 include a new rack diagramming template, a new
library of network diagramming shapes with a more up-to-date look and a
consistent set of custom properties, and three new predefined reports for
extracting data from your network diagrams.

If you need a tool to visualize your Active Directory environment, you might
want to check out the other products that are available, such as the HP
OpenView Smart Plug-in for Microsoft Active Directory. To learn more about
this tool, follow the link in the See Also section.


Brian