niv 1.3

console application to visualize network infrastructure using YAML files.

Welcome to Network Infrastructure Visualization (NIV)

NIV is a console application to visualize network infrastructure using YAML files.

Network diagrams are commonly drawn manually, using tools like Visio or Draw.io. This makes maintaining an up-to-date representation of dynamic network environments challenging. Currently, no modern tools appear to exist which can generate network drawings from code such as YAML. Such a machine readable format would allow administrators to automate the visualization of a topology and to track document changes using version control.

Key goals

• High quality visualization wanted (for dashboards, presentations, scientific papers)
• Use YAML for infrastructure description
• Offline generation of SVG diagrams
• Hyperlink to detailed view (e.g. zoom into port utilization)

The documentation is split between the Wiki and this repository:

• Rather stable documentation parts tend to be saved in the Wiki, which is also a git repository.
• Rather short time documentation parts tend to be saved here in this repository in a semester oriented branch.

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License MIT

For details see LICENSE.md in the repository.

Legal

You can find the legal notes in German language at Impressum und Datenschutzerklärung.