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[AIT] Anyone using AI to map your network / system
I was just looking to plug a new zigbee coordinator into a POE switch today, then thought - that’s going to be on the wrong VLAN, or, did I trunk the uplink…?
So… that made me think - is anyone using / tried / failed to export device configs, feed it into an AI, and get it to draw out the network??
Nope, and I wouldn’t recommend it either. They are generally not great with mapping IMO, no matter the model.
And really this is better managed with a quick diagram and a spreadsheet. If you want some software, look at netbox for this, you can add in validation rules and all kinds of automations as well.
But really, use a spreadsheet.
Replying to @curbstickle@anarchist.nexus
I have Visio drawings already, and KeePass files and backup configs and…
So, it’s mostly there, but there’s always something that’s not captured, like maybe MAC address I’m trying to resolve in a switch…
I was thinking AI could draw, redraw and draw again…
You can, I’m just saying be prepared for disappointment. The amount of effort you need to put in, imo, you could have had a spreadsheet and been done. And then used that with a script to autogenerate some mermaidml to get a purdy drawing out of it (which I highly recommend leveraging Beautiful-Mermaid ).
And then you can feed that to an llm and make your queries about ports or other uses, to me thats a much better use/approach. To each their own though.
Replying to @curbstickle@anarchist.nexus
Not really seen much of mermaid diagrams before, thanks.
Btw, Looking at the issue comments, seems beautiful mermaid is unmaintained and now forked to zombie mermaid: github.com/dfadler/zombie-mermaid
Replying to @Cyber@feddit.uk
May be personal preference, but d2 blows mermaid out of the water. And it is a single executable, no npm needed.
Replying to @monomon@programming.dev
Ok, interesting… any advances after d2?
Mermaid --> d2 --> ???